(Class 12) 12 November: Language and Reality 2 of 2: Truth
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Part 1 : The Unity of Truth in Ibn Rushd / Averroes
KUL-4: Zehao Lyu & Joeri Paul Leijdsman. Handout of absolutely not more than 6 pp. + 2 pp bibliography due Tuesday 5 pm US Central Time/ midnight Leuven. Thursday at class: 8-10 min. oral presentation followed by discussion.
Required : (i) Ibn Rushd / Averroes, Faṣl al-maqāl or the so-called “Decisive Treatise”; (ii) Taylor 2000, “Truth does not contradict truth. Averroes” Topoi; (iii) Sarrió 2015, “The Philosopher as the Heir of the Prophets – Averroes’s Islamic Rationalism”.
Recommended: (i) Taylor 2012 “Averroes on the Shari`ah of the Philosophers”; (ii) Black 2010, “Reason Reflecting on Reason- Philosophy, Rationality and the Intellect in the Medieval Islamic and Christian Traditions”; (iii) Taylor 2018 “Averroes and the Philosophical Account of Prophecy” SGA.
Part 2 : Aquinas on Truth
KUL-5 : Andy Yan & Kasra Abdavi Azar. Handout of absolutely not more than 6 pp. + 2 pp bibliography due Tuesday 5 pm US Central Time/ midnight Leuven. Thursday at class: 8-10 min. oral presentation followed by discussion.
Required: (i) Summa theologiae, prima pars, Question 16: On Truth, Latin & English, newer English; (ii) De Veritate. Question 1, article 12 Latin and English.
Recommended: (i) Jan A. Aertsen, “Truth as transcendental in Thomas Aquinas,” Topoi 11 (1992), pp. 159–171; (ii) Liran Shia Gordon, “Some thoughts about Aquinas’s Conception of Truth as Adequation”, Heythrop Journal 2015; (iii) TBA.