| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 323 pages) |
| Contents |
General preface to the project: Gifts of the good -- The fourth of several volumes devoted to the good -- Human, natural worlds filled with gifts -- Nature the general economy of the good, earth's abundance -- Resisting authority and totality -- Plato's idea of the good beyond measure -- Unlimiting every limit, interrupting authority -- Gifts and giving -- Exposure interruption, calling for responsiveness, responsibility -- Cherishment exposure to the good everywhere in generosity -- Sacrifice impossibility of fulfillment -- Plenishment crossing cherishment and sacrifice -- Inexhaustible exposure to the good -- Socrates' suggestion that the good grants authority to knowledge and truth -- Anaximander and injustice in all things, demanding restitution -- The good as ideality -- Volumes projected in this project -- Began with art in response to Nietzsche's interruption of authority in name of art -- Continue within possibility that Western philosophic tradition has always given precedence to truth and being, neutralizing the good -- This volume addresses kinds of the earth as ecstatic revelations of life and being, resistant to neutrality -- Introduction: The Abundance of Kinds -- Spinoza and abundance of kinds -- God and nature expressed in infinite numbers of infinite kinds -- Nature composed of infinite individuals, each expressed through infinite kinds -- Conatus, desire -- Love of God, Dei amor, beatitudo, blessedness -- Kind -- Tyranny of kinds: using other kinds in any way whatever -- Interruption: essentialism and identity politics |
| Summary |
"In this fourth volume of Stephen David Ross's ongoing project reexamining Western philosophical tradition, The Gift of Kinds explores the order of things, linking the kinds of the natural world to disciplinary distinctions and to social divisions by gender, race, class, and nationality. It pursues a local and contingent ethics that pervades human life and the earth that responds to the expressiveness of things everywhere, resisting the tyranny of kinds, human and otherwise."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-301) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Ethics.
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Philosophy of nature.
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Categories (Philosophy) -- Moral and ethical aspects
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ethics (philosophy)
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PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
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Ethics
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Philosophy of nature
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Ethik
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
99017962 |
| ISBN |
0585340692 |
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9780585340692 |
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1438417918 |
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9781438417912 |
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