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    LESSON OUTILNE AND NOTES

    PHS 751
    THE TRUE, THE FALSE, THE LIE, AND THE FAKE
    LECTURE TWO: CLARIFYING THE NATURE OF TRUTH
    SESSION ONE
    Some words on theoretical versus practical truth.
    Lying as a way of knowing truth by contrast.
    The political expediency of lying.
    Truth in democracy.
    Truth in religion.
    Classical science as demonstration, involving universality and necessity. Modern science reduced to
    mathematical physics.
    Latin Averroism and double truth. Gould’s modern version of Latin Averroism.
    Aquinas’ rejection of double truth. Aquinas’ position on the harmony of faith and reason. Truth is a unity.
    The logic of truth.
    How Aquinas assesses a purported conflict between reason and faith.
    De aeternitate mundi and other illustrations about the unity of truth.
    Two questions on the nature of truth.
    Mortimer Adler’s distinction between the easy question about truth and the hard question about truth.
    Truth as distinct from verification. These two questions are grounded in ordinary (common-sense)
    experience.
    The standard definition of truth in the history of philosophy.
    Common sense versus skepticism.
    Aristotle as an aporetic philosopher. From the Greek verb aporeo, to be at a loss. The noun aporia
    signifies a perplexity.
    Philosophy born in wonder.
    Philosophy and the poets. Both philosophy and poetry inspired by wonder. Wisdom for the ancient poets.
    Poets, gods, and the philosophers.
    Why philosophy was revolutionary in ancient Greece.
    Some illustrations of how wonder provokes explanations.
    Wonder as part of the sense-realist definition of philosophy.
    SESSION TWO
    Lying as a way of understanding its opposite, the truth.
    Lying shows by contrast how truth and truth telling are grounded in common-sense experience.
    The essence of Lying. The elements of lying.
    Lying considered both in a theoretical and practical way.
    What about the “little white lie”?
    Examples of deception which are not immoral.
    Genuine lying violates one’s right to know the truth. More precisely, the injury in lying consists in
    denying someone’s right to the truth. Lying as a character flaw.
    Philosophical analysis of the act and elements of lying.
    Truth as correspondence; lying as lack thereof.
    Fact, thought, and judgment as related to truth. Judgment involves recognition of reason and evidence for
    truth.
    Jesus and Pilate.
    Some observations on the definition of truth.
    Why verification is difficult.
    Error enables one to speak truthfully and yet say something that is not true. (The falsehood is not willful.)
    A passing remark on error and ignorance.
    Communication and truth telling.
    Truth (1) as agreement with what one thinks and says; (2) as agreement with what one thinks and says to
    another; and (3) as agreement with judgment and what is real.

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