BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA – This evening I gave a public lecture at the Universidad de los Andes entitled Aristotle’s Phenomenology of Truth in which I articulate the basic argument of my book, Aristotle on the Nature of Truth. The lecture, and the book, attempt to re-think the nature of truth not as correspondance, but in terms of the ability to respond together with the things of nature.
The lecture locates in Aristotle resources by which to understand truth in terms of the attempt to put words to things in ways that do justice to the ways they express themselves. I draw on Heideggerian phenomenology and American naturalism in order to identify Aristotelian phenomenology as a ‘legomenology’ that attends to the ways things are said in order to gain access to something of the nature of things.
The ability to respond to the logos of things is at the root of an understanding of truth in terms of justice.
Hello Christopher
I was one of the students at both yesterday’s and today’s talk. I want to congratulate you, and I’m pretty sure that all of us enjoyed very much the time we shared discussing on Socrates apology and your essay. Thanks, and I hope you have a nice trip in the way back to USA. And I hope you enjoyed Colombia and the university de Los Andes.
Sebastian M
Thank you, Sebastian, for this comment and for coming to the talk and seminar. I have been extremely impressed with the students at the Universidad de Los Andes and with the city of Bogotá. I hope you will continue to work on Ancient Greek philosophy as it is extremely rewarding and you have a wonderful community of scholars and students working in this area at the university.
book sounds very interesting you might want to check out the possibly related youth movement @:
http://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com/
http://www.ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com/
http://un-cannyontology.blogspot.com/
if you could get Claire Colebrook on the digital dialogue I would be interested in her take on your Aristotelian phenomenology.
http://static.londonconsortium.com/issue03/colebrook.pdf