{"id":1516,"date":"2019-04-12T23:14:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T23:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/?page_id=1516"},"modified":"2025-10-13T14:02:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T14:02:26","slug":"beauty-truth-and-education","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/beauty-truth-and-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Beauty, Truth, and Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This page features archival information from select Philosophy, Religion, and Humanities Forum talks in recent years.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This page features archival information from select Philosophy, Religion, and Humanities Forum talks in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1516","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"layouts":[{"acf_fc_layout":"two_columns","heading":"","column_1":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1517 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/55827020_10157130457724814_7264523073322221568_n.jpg\" alt=\"Information about the event on top of an image of a flower\" width=\"960\" height=\"621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/55827020_10157130457724814_7264523073322221568_n.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/55827020_10157130457724814_7264523073322221568_n.jpg?resize=300%2C194&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/55827020_10157130457724814_7264523073322221568_n.jpg?resize=768%2C497&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n","column_2":"<h2><strong>Grant Potts, &#8220;Beauty, Truth, and Education&#8221;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>April 9, 2019<br \/>\n7:00-9:00 p.m.<br \/>\nEastview Campus 8500<\/p>\n<p>Presenter<br \/>\n<strong>Grant Potts, Philosophy and Religion Professor,\u00a0Department Chair of Philosophy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Modern understandings of truth often see it as opposed to the subjective tastes we associate with\u00a0<span class=\"il\">beauty<\/span>\u00a0and with the arts. But the Western Philosophical tradition has a long tradition, going back to Plato and those who inspired him, of identifying the beautiful with the truth. In this talk, Dr. Grant Potts, Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Austin Community College, will discuss this classic relationship between\u00a0<span class=\"il\">beauty<\/span>\u00a0and truth. Drawing on the work of 20th century Philosopher Hans-Georg\u00a0Gadamer, he will suggest there is an important connection often overlooked in modern ideas of knowing, understanding, and truth, and suggest that a greater appreciation of\u00a0<span class=\"il\">beauty<\/span>\u00a0as a form of truth can inform how we not only think about the nature of truth but of how we approach education.<\/p>\n<p><em>Return to the main page for <a href=\"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/past-events\/\">past events<\/a>\u00a0from the Philosophy, Religion, and Humanities Forum.<\/em><\/p>\n","background":"Color","background_color":"#FFFFFF","background_gradient":{"gradient_start":"","gradient_end":""},"background_image":false,"text_mode":"dark","id":""}],"hero_content":false,"sidekick":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}