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Reclaiming Truth
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Author : Christopher Norris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Reclaiming Truth written by Christopher Norris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Philosophy categories.
Truth, Christopher Norris reminds us, is very much out of fashion at the moment - whether at the hands of politicians, media pundits, or purveyors of postmodern wisdom in cultural and literary studies. Across a range of disciplines the idea has taken hold that truth-talk is either redundant or the product of epistemic might. Questions of truth and falsehood are always internal to some specific language-game; history is just another kind of fiction; philosophy is only a kind of writing; law is a wholly rhetorical practice. In Reclaiming Truth, Norris critiques these fashionable trends of thought and mounts a specific challenge to cultural relativist doctrines in epistemology, philosophy of science, ethics, and political theory. Norris presents his case in a series of closely argued chapters that take issue with the relativist position. He attempts to rehabilitate the value of truth in philosophy of science by restoring a lost distinction between concept and metaphor and argues that theoretical discourse, far from being an inconsequential activity, has very real consequences, particularly in ethics and politics. This debate has become skewed, he suggests, through the widespread and typically postmodern idea that truth-claims must always go along with a presumptive or authoritarian bid to silence opposing views. On the contrary, there is nothing as dogmatic - or as silencing - as a relativism that acknowledges no shared truth conditions for valid or responsible discourse. Norris also offers a timely reassessment of several thinkers - Althusser and Derrida among them - whose reception-history has been distorted by the vagaries of short-term intellectual fashion.
Reclaiming Common Sense
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Author : Robert Curry
language : en
Publisher: Encounter Books
Release Date : 2019-09-24
Reclaiming Common Sense written by Robert Curry and has been published by Encounter Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-24 with Political Science categories.
Common sense is the foundation of thinking and of human action. It is the indispensable basis for making our way in the world as individuals and in community with others, and the starting point for finding truth and building scientific knowledge. The philosophy of common-sense realism deeply informed the American Founders’ vision for a self-governing people, in a society where leaders and average citizens share essentially the same understanding of reality—of what simply makes sense. But today our confidence in the value and reliability of common sense has been badly shaken. Deep thinkers have rejected it. Elites have learned to disdain it. We’re told that we have moved into a more sophisticated world, where common sense is passé and the very concept of truth is outmoded. Indeed, the Oxford Dictionaries selected “post-truth” as the Word of the Year for 2016. Do we actually live in a post-truth reality? Have we moved beyond common sense? Can we? In this book, Robert Curry exposes the absurdity of the attacks on common sense, and demonstrates that we still live and move in the realm of common sense in our every waking moment. Drawing from philosophy and literature, science and psychiatry, Reclaiming Common Sense helps us regain our trust in the “superpower” we all have in common, while reminding us that we cannot get along without it.
Identity Theft
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Author : Melissa Kruger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-06-16
Identity Theft written by Melissa Kruger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-16 with categories.
Who am I? It's a question we all ask ourselves at some point. Depending on the season we focus our identity on our job performance, marital status, personality type, or social network, among other options. However, there's a larger question to consider. Who does the Bible tell me I am in Christ?
The Architecture Of Truth
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Author : Rodger Woodworth
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2023-08-11
The Architecture Of Truth written by Rodger Woodworth and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-11 with Religion categories.
Today we are battered with a never-ending barrage of competing truths. Social media overwhelms us with topics on how to live our best lives but eventually we discover just how conflicting these truths really are. With this constant stream of incompatible assertions, it is difficult to find footing in the architecture of truth. It almost seems that objective truth has been put on trial. Untruths are being promoted by politicians’ quest for power and populism’s drive for attention. The idea that there are many different truths seems appropriate for today’s pluralistic world but when we can define our own truth, truth is derived from the one with the loudest voice. The apostle Paul addresses these issues in his letter to Titus, exhorting him to “teach them to know the truth” because false teachers were “turning whole families away from the truth . . . and they do it only for money.” In his effort to refute error and unmask falsehood, Paul gives one of the most condensed and yet comprehensive summaries of the gospel in Titus 3:1–8. In this passage the apostle constructs the architecture of truth that teaches us to live a life different than the world of untruths around us.
The Architecture Of Truth
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Author : Rodger Woodworth
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2023-08-11
The Architecture Of Truth written by Rodger Woodworth and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-11 with Religion categories.
Today we are battered with a never-ending barrage of competing truths. Social media overwhelms us with topics on how to live our best lives but eventually we discover just how conflicting these truths really are. With this constant stream of incompatible assertions, it is difficult to find footing in the architecture of truth. It almost seems that objective truth has been put on trial. Untruths are being promoted by politicians’ quest for power and populism’s drive for attention. The idea that there are many different truths seems appropriate for today’s pluralistic world but when we can define our own truth, truth is derived from the one with the loudest voice. The apostle Paul addresses these issues in his letter to Titus, exhorting him to “teach them to know the truth” because false teachers were “turning whole families away from the truth . . . and they do it only for money.” In his effort to refute error and unmask falsehood, Paul gives one of the most condensed and yet comprehensive summaries of the gospel in Titus 3:1–8. In this passage the apostle constructs the architecture of truth that teaches us to live a life different than the world of untruths around us.
Reclaiming Parkland
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Author : James DiEugenio
language : en
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Release Date : 2013-10-01
Reclaiming Parkland written by James DiEugenio and has been published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-01 with History categories.
New foreword by J.F.K. director Oliver Stone Reclaiming Parkland details the failed attempt of Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks and producer Gary Goetzman to make Vincent Bugliosi’s mammoth book about the Kennedy assassination, Reclaiming History, into a miniseries. It exposes the questionable origins of Reclaiming History in a dubious mock trial for cable television, in which Bugliosi played the role of an attorney prosecuting Lee Harvey Oswald for murder, and how this formed the basis for the epic tome. Author James DiEugenio details the myriad problems with Bugliosi’s book, and explores the cooperation of the mainstream press in concealing many facts during the publicity campaign for the book and how this lack of scrutiny led Hanks and Goetzman—cofounders of the production company Playtone—to purchase the film rights. DiEugenio then shows how the film adapted from that book, entitled Parkland, does not resemble Bugliosi’s book and examines why. This book reveals the connections between Washington and Hollywood, as well as the CIA influence in the film colony today. It includes an extended look at the little-known aspects of the lives and careers of Bugliosi, Hanks, and Goetzman. Reclaiming Parkland sheds light on the Kennedy assassination, New Hollywood, and the political influence on media in America.
We Still Hold These Truths
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Author : Matthew Spalding
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2014-04-08
We Still Hold These Truths written by Matthew Spalding and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-08 with Political Science categories.
The Essential Guide to Rolling Back the Progressive Assault and Putting America Back on Course Many Americans are concerned, frightened, angry. The country, it seems, is on the wrong track. But what is the right course for America? Knowing what we stand against is not the same as knowing what we stand for. Just in time, Matthew Spalding provides the plan for translating angst into proper action in this bestselling book. We Still Hold These Truths offers a bracing analysis of how and why we have lost our bearings as a nation and lays out the strategy to rescue our future from arbitrary and unlimited government.
Reclaiming Identity
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Author : Paula M. L. Moya
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2000-12-14
Reclaiming Identity written by Paula M. L. Moya and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-12-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection of ten essays argues that identity is not just socially constructed but has real epistemic and political consequences. They examine the way theory, politics and activism clash with or complement each other, providing an alternative to the widely influential understandings of identity.
Social Domains Of Truth
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Author : Lambert Zuidervaart
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-03-10
Social Domains Of Truth written by Lambert Zuidervaart and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-10 with Philosophy categories.
Truth is in trouble. In response, this book presents a new conception of truth. It recognizes that prominent philosophers have questioned whether the idea of truth is important. Some have asked why we even need it. Their questions reinforce broader trends in Western society, where many wonder whether or why we should pursue truth. Indeed, some pundits say we have become a "post-truth" society. Yet there are good reasons not to embrace the cultural Zeitgeist or go with the philosophical flow, reasons to regard truth as a substantive and socially significant idea. This book explains why. First it argues that propositional truth is only one kind of truth—an important kind, but not all important. Then it shows how propositional truth belongs to the more comprehensive process of truth as a whole. This process is a dynamic correlation between human fidelity to societal principles and a life-giving disclosure of society. The correlation comes to expression in distinct social domains of truth, where either propositional or nonpropositional truth is primary. The final chapters lay out five such domains: science, politics, art, religion, and philosophy. Anyone who cares about the future of truth in society will want to read this pathbreaking book.
Peace At The Edge Of Uncertainty
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Author : Neil M. Hanson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010-05
Peace At The Edge Of Uncertainty written by Neil M. Hanson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05 with Fathers categories.
Beginning with a teenage out-of-body experience on the wrestling mat, and culminating in a breathtaking mystical experience at his father's deathbed, this true story is inspirational and thought-provoking.