Summary
Gaetano Chiurazzi: The Experience of Truth
The goal of the book, therefore, is to present the concept of truth as a transcendental "predicate", or better, as a "modus", starting from mainly linguistic and philological discussions in the first chapters. Just as the predicate "beautiful" for Kant does not denote a feature of an object, but rather our relationship with the object, and in that sense it is transcendental, likewise "true" is not a predicate that concerns - or at least exclusively concerns - the object, but a way of relating to the object. It is, therefore, the mode of our relationship with the world, and not a predicate of some state of things in themselves, independent of the experience we have with them. He tells us in what way we are "connected" to reality, and not simply how reality itself is made.
In short, I was interested in defending the concept of truth as something that involves us experientially, I would even say "existentially", in the sense explained in the book - it is a "transformational" concept of truth, because the experience of truth produces transformation and moreover liberates.
From the Preface
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