Notes on Truth, Beauty, and Goodness -- Phil A231

William Jamison - Instructor

Meaning and truth

We watched the scene from "The Two Towers" titled "The White Rider" and discussed the narrative aspect of the piece: resurrection. We then viewed the last scene from "The Passion" and contrasted this with the previous piece from "The Lord of the Rings". As a result of the following discussion I selected a section from Dunn's book "Jesus Remembered" titled "Postmodernism" to focus on how the dialogue concerning the nature of truth in narratives has taken the linguistic (post-Wittgensteinian) turn. (The link above is to the Google Book page I read in class).

Bibliography

For one of the online versions of Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw" http://www.online-literature.com/henry_james/turn_screw/

For a classic view of Plato's aesthetics: http://www.literatureclassics.com/etexts/662/10075/

Some links to E.D. Hirsch Jr.

The Stagecraft of Aeschylus: The Dramatic Use of Exits and Entrances in Greek Tragedy by Oliver Taplin
 

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