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A painting that reveals (aletheia) a whole world.Heidegger mentions this particular work of Van Gogh's (Pair of Shoes, 1895) in The Origin of the Work of Art.In the early to mid 20th-century, Martin Heidegger brought renewed attention to the concept of aletheia, by relating it to the notion of disclosure, or the way in which things appear as entities in the world.
Alethia, Aletheia, Thea, Theia, Tia, Thia, Verity Alice Liddell as the goddess Aletheia , photographed by Julia Margaret Cameron in 1872. Alethea is an English-language female first name derived from the Ancient Greek feminine noun ἀλήθεια , alḗtheia , ' truth '.
The Greek goddess of truth is Aletheia (Ancient Greek: Ἀλήθεια). The German philosopher Martin Heidegger argues that the truth represented by aletheia (which essentially means "unconcealment") is different from that represented by veritas , which is linked to a Roman understanding of rightness and finally to a Nietzschean sense of ...
Aletheia (Ἀλήθεια), spirit of truth, truthfulness and sincerity; The Algea (Ἄλγεα), spirits of pain and suffering Achos (Ἄχος) "trouble, distress" Ania (Ἀνία) "ache, anguish" Lupe (Λύπη) "pain, grief, sadness" Alke (Ἀλκή), spirit of prowess and courage (one of the Machai)
(This is Heidegger's usual reading of aletheia as Unverborgenheit, "unconcealment".) [1] It is closely related to the notion of world disclosure, the way in which things get their sense as part of a holistically structured, pre-interpreted background of meaning. Initially, Heidegger wanted aletheia to stand for a re-interpreted definition of truth.
"Aletheia" (Person of Interest), an episode of the TV series Person of Interest; Aletheia M. D., author of the 1897 Rationalist's Manual; Aletheia University, a university in New Taipei, Taiwan; Alethia, a poetic adaptation of the Book of Genesis into Latin by Claudius Marius Victorius; Aletheia, the Greek version of Veritas, the Roman goddess ...
259 Aletheia is a very large main-belt asteroid that was discovered by German–American astronomer Christian Peters on June 28, 1886, at Litchfield Observatory, Clinton, New York. The dark and heterogeneously composed X-type (Tholen: C P -type) asteroid contains primitive carbonaceous materials, responsible for its low albedo of 0.04.
Aletheia University (after Greek ἀλήθεια, 'truth') (Chinese: 真理大學; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chin-lí Tāi-ha̍k) is a private university in Tamsui, New Taipei City and Madou, Tainan in Taiwan. It was founded by George Leslie Mackay as Oxford College .