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Truth in the Making

Creative Knowledge in Theology and Philosophy

by Robert C. Miner

  • Paperback
  • 192 pages
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1 cm

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Is knowing a purely passive reception of something concrete outside the mind, or when we know something are we creating something too? Spanning more than 500 years of philosophical enquiry from the Middle Ages to the present day, Robert Miner clarifies modern philosophical conceptions of knowing as making or constructing, and contrasts this view with the theological understanding of knowing as a participation in divine creation. This study demonstrates how 'creative knowledge' has its roots in the theologies of Thomas Aquinas and Nicholas Cusanus. It explores the multiple ways in which this idea influenced the architects of the modern philosophical viewpoint, most notably Francis Bacon, Rene Descartes and Thomas Hobbes, despite their secular stance. Miner contends that, well in advance of Kant, one of these thinkers, Gaimbattista Vico provideds a remarkably succinct formulation of the metaphysical and epistemological core of modernity in his principle verum et factum convertuntur : "the true and the made are convertible". In Truth in the Making, Robert Miner challenges the standard assumpation that Kant was the first thinker to conceive of knowing as constructive activity.By tracing the development of these contrasting theological and secular theories of knowledge, Miner presents a compelling argument for contemporary theology to reclaim a concept of knowing that is both creative and participates in divine wisdom.
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  • Author

    Robert C. Miner

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Taylor & Francis Ltd

  • Published

    September 2003

  • Weight

    268g

  • Page Count

    192

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780415276986

  • ISBN-10

    0415276985

  • Eden Code

    1226042

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