Research On Caputo's View Of Trut

The question of truth is one of the most important issues in Western thought.But in recent times,existence has been frozen within the limits imposed by necessity and reality.Metaphysics is an abstract system containing a certain definition of universality,which operates in such a way that it enjoys a static unity.Metaphysics presents a comprehensive understanding of reality and provides an absolutely stable basis for life.In the face of the ambiguity and uncertainty of life,the postmodern escapes from the vagaries of abstraction about existence to an intentional intervention in life.Radical hermeneutics engages in an effort,contrary to metaphysics,to try to recover the complexity and hardship of life,to read it sensitively in the light of its most immediate and pre-given concreteness,while breaking down the security of falsehood.The event is sustained by the tension between order and disorder,the event is not to resurrect the past with supernaturalist divine power,but to create new meanings for the past,to awaken the memory of the past,without giving a definitive decision,but calling for the arrival of impossibilities,breaking the logic of reality.Each seeks its own way of sheltering that which retreats from the grip of metaphysics.This is a break with metaphysics,which is committed to a static unity isolated from the vagaries of life.In an absolute future we are pushed to the limits of what is possible,to the point where only great faith can lead the way.Caputo is an important representative of contemporary event thought and an important American continental postmodern thinker.For Caputo,the claims of traditional metaphysical pretensions are irrational and dishonest to our grim human condition.In the postmodern reality of existence,which is no longer subject to rational reality,the possibility of the ungraspable is always at hand.This paper intends to reflect on this issue by telling the story of Caputo’s view of truth.The paper consists of the following four chapters.The first chapter gives the background to Caputo’s view of truth.Caputo believed that metaphysics was merely peddling ideas and that hermeneutics was about remaining open to a closed metaphysics.Through radical hermeneutics,Caputo re-examines and rethinks the human condition of existence.Radical hermeneutics offers a minimalist understanding of human existence,which is concerned with modest fixed facts.Chapter 2 deals with Caputo’s critique of the recent view of truth as well as his reflections.Descartes’ conception of truth is one of clarity and clarity of vision.Caputo argues that all of Descartes’ inferences are confined to the interior of consciousness.Kant sees truth as the conformity of appearances to categories.Caputo argues that Kant’s reason has brought human life to a high level of division.Kant tried to structure everything in terms of reason.Hegel believed that truth was the whole,and Caputo criticised Hegel for still continuing the path of reason from the Enlightenment.Caputo argues that these recent universal,grandiose systems of truth are not concerned with the present and concrete nature of human existence.The third chapter deals with Caputo’s reflection on and assimilation of the modern view of truth.Nietzsche argues that truth is a mere fiction.Caputo agrees with Nietzsche’s search for something deeper in the raw power of life.Kierkegaard believed that the most important thing for man is to find the truth that is truth for him.Caputo gives Kierkegaard high marks for thinking very deeply about the situation in which people live.Heidegger sees truth as a kind of de-masking,and in Caputo’s view Heidegger’s masking is a mystifying representation and de-masking is a revelation of potential meaning.Caputo argues that modern philosophers have made greater progress in their view of truth than recent philosophers.Chapter 4 deals with Caputo’s view of truth.Caputo introduces the concept of a’poetics of events’.Caputo’s event cannot be set in a capital sense,and this expression rejects the confinement of truth to the framework of logic.Events must be concretized and expressed,otherwise their potential is left unused.He employs the idea of ’repetition’,constantly seeking a dynamic balance between the broken and the established.He tends to move forward in a flexible flow,using a natural force to construct truths in concrete situations along a certain structural flow.To venture into this indescribable and ambiguous realm is to reconcile with the depths of one’s being and to learn to live with the flow,pointing towards the mystery of the unknown.