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Author Miner, Robert C., 1970-

Title Truth in the Making : Creative Knowledge in Theology and Philosophy.

Publication Info. Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (193 pages).
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Series Routledge Radical Orthodoxy
Routledge Radical Orthodoxy.
Contents TRUTH IN THE MAKING Creative knowledge in theology and philosophy; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1 Thomas Aquinas; Scientia Dei and creation; Creation and human production; Making and the "analogy of being"; 2 Nicolaus Cusanus; The dramatic setting of the Idiota de Mente; Construction as manifestation of forms through image-making; Constructions of reason; The activity of mens: vis assimilativa and the construction of concepts; Activa creatio humanitatis: making as imaging of the divine exemplar; 3 Francis Bacon; The Baconian factum; Induction as constructive method.
Limits on human making: Bacon's formsFor and against Bacon; 4 René Descartes; The Cartesian factum; Representations as artifacts made from simple natures; The constitution of simple natures; Construction in the determination of quaestiones; The division of the Cartesian inheritance; 5 Thomas Hobbes; The making of geometrical definitions; The commonwealth as feat of technical making; Science and power; 6 Giambattista Vico; Making and truth; Abstraction as creation; Making within metaphysics; Making as imaginative mythopoesis; Making as the creation of elements.
Making as composition from elementsEpilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary 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.
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Subject Knowledge, Theory of.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Truth.
Truth.
Philosophical theology.
Philosophical theology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Miner, Robert C. Truth in the Making : Creative Knowledge in Theology and Philosophy. Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, ©2013 9780415276986
ISBN 9781135646363 (electronic book)
1135646368 (electronic book)