The ethics of ontology : rethinking an Aristotelian legacy / Christopher P. Long.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Long, Christopher P. (Christopher Philip), 1969-

Series:

SUNY series in ancient Greek philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aristotle.

Ethics.

Ontology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The legacy of Ousia

Foundational thinking and the categories

Kinetic principles and the hegemony of form

Prelude to a safe passage

Two aporiae

Toward a dynamic ontology

The dynamic economy of principles

Knowledge in actuality and the ethical turn

Contingent knowledge : Phronesis in the ethics

The ethics of ontology.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-215) and index.

ISBN:

9780791484944

0791484947

9781423739234

142373923X

OCLC:

62751489