The Ethics of Ontology

Christopher P. Long

Description

Concerned with the meaning and function of principles in an era that appears to have given up on their possibility altogether, Christopher P. Long traces the paths of Aristotle's thinking concerning finite being from the Categories, through the Physics, to the Metaphysics, and ultimately into the Nicomachean Ethics. Long argues that a dynamic and open conception of principles emerges in these works that challenges the traditional tendency to seek security in permanent and eternal absolutes. He rethinks the meaning of Aristotle's notion of principle (arche) and spans the divide of analytic and continental methodological approaches to ancient Greek philosophy, while connecting Aristotle's thinking to that of Levinas, Gadamer, and Heidegger.

Preface

1. The Legacy of Ousia

2. Foundational Thinking and the Categories

3. Kinetic Principles and the Hegemony of Form

4. Prelude to a Safe Passage—Two Aporiae

5. Toward a Dynamic Ontology

6. The Dynamic Economy of Principles

7. Knowledge in Actuality and the Ethical Turn

8. Contingent Knowledge: Phronesis in the Ethics

9. The Ethics of Ontology

Notes

References

Index

Sujets

• Philosophie
• Épistémologie
• Philosophie de l'esprit
• Éthique et morale
• Philosophie antique
• Epistémologie
• Epistémologie
• Epistémologie
• Ancient philosophy
• Ethique et morale

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780791484944
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

THE ETHICS OF ONT O LOGY

Rethinking an Aristotelian Legacy

C H R I S T O P H E R P . L O N G

The Ethics of Ontology

SUNY series in Ancient Greek Philosophy

Anthony Preus, editor

The Ethics of Ontology

Rethinking an Aristotelian Legacy

Christopher P. Long

State University of New York Press

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Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Long, Christopher Philip, 1969– The ethics of ontology : rethinking an Aristotelian legacy / Christopher P. Long. p. cm. — (SUNY series in ancient Greek philosophy) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-6119-X 1. Aristotle. 2. Ethics. 3. Ontology. I. Title. II. Series. B491.E7L66 2004 111'.092—dc22 2004006851

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With friendship, respect, and, above all, love:

For Valerie, in whom grace and will converge.

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Refuse the life of anarchy; Refuse the life devoted to One master. The in-between has the power By God’s grant always, though His ordinances vary. —Aeschylus,Eumenides

The concentration and fusion into the whole being can never happen through me nor can it happen without me. I become in relation to the Thou, becoming I, I say Thou. All actual life is encounter. —Martin Buber,Ich und Du

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Preface

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The Legacy ofOusia

Contents

Foundational Thinking and theCategories

Kinetic Principles and the Hegemony of Form

Prelude to a Safe Passage—TwoAporiae

Toward a Dynamic Ontology

The Dynamic Economy of Principles

Knowledge in Actuality and the Ethical Turn

Contingent Knowledge:Phrone\sisin the Ethics

The Ethics of Ontology

Notes

References

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