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[FL 3339]  LIC. The Hermeneutic Critique of Truth: Attempt to Situate Thomistic Truth in Postmodernity – 24.25

Semester I
thursday 14:30 - 16:15

Course Information

Professor: THOMAS, Rogi
Email: [email protected]
Language: English

ECTS: 3
Schedule:
Semester I
thursday 14:30 - 16:15

Content

Aims:

  1. To provide the student with an understanding of the concept of truth in classical philosophical traditions leading up to Thomas Aquinas.
  2. To analyse Aquinas and the argument that ‘the truthshows itself’ and to critique it as a theme that responds to Kantian scepticism which begins to anticipate both Heidegger and hermeneutics.
  3. To Enquire whether Aquinas’s ‘Truth’ can function as an alternative to turn premodern (begore Enlightenment) and modern (Enlightenment) thought into a postmodern critique and make a fresh start with better insight.

Outline:

St. Thomas Aquinas and the argument that the truth shows itself can be seen as theme that responds to Kantian scepticism and begins to anticipate both Heidegger and hermeneutics. Accordingly, the following suggests itself: An analytic study of the concept of truth leading up to St. Thomas Aquinas; Kant’s problematisation of metaphysical truth; Hegel and an Historical Ontology of Truth; Nietzsche and Truth and Nihilism; Heidegger on Truth and Ontology; and Vattimo on The Farewell to Metaphysics and Truth and the Recovery of Religious “truth”. A Critical Summary: Unresolved problems and Anticipated Solutions; why Post-Modern Truth is a problem for Theology; Relevance of Thomistic Philosophy in Postmodernity; and What is the issue and what is at stake?

Bibliography

Aquinas, St. Thomas. The Summa Theologiæ. Second and Revised Edition.1920, Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province. 1920. Edition Copyright © 2017 by Kevin Knight Question 16. Truth, Article 1-8.
________. Truth, translated by S.J. Robert W. Mulligan, Vol. I: Questions I-IX. Indianapolis, Indiana: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 1994, 5. (“De veritate”.)
________. Commentary on Aristotle's De Anima, translated by Kenelm Foster, O.P., & Silvester Humphries, O.P. Notre Dame, Indiana: Dumb Ox Books, 1994, (De anima.)
Heidegger, Martin. Being and Time. Translated by Translated by John Macquarrie & Edward Robinson. Oxford: Backwell Publishes, 1962.
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. Phenomenology of Spirit. Translated by A V Miller. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1977.

Gadamer, Hans-Georg. Truth and Method, Translated by Joel Weinsheimer and Donald G. Marshall. 2nd, revised edition, (New York: Continuum Publishing Group, 2004. Reprint: 2006).
Nietzsche, Friedrich. Ecce Homo, trans. R.J. Hollingdale. New York: Penguin Books, 1979.
Caputo, John D. Hermeneutics: Facts and Interpretation in the Age of Information.
Milton Keynes: Pelican Books, 2018.

Vattimo, Gianni. Belief. Trans. Luca D’ Isanto and David Webb. Cambridge: Polity Press,
1999.