Virtue in being : towards an ethics of the unconditioned / Andrew Benjamin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benjamin, Andrew E., author.

Series:

SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy.

SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Philosophical anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 pages).

Place of Publication:

Albany, [New York] : State University of New York Press, 2016.

Summary:

In his last book, Towards a Relational Ontology, Andrew Benjamin provided a philosophical account of what he terms anoriginal relationality, demonstrating how this concept can be seen to be at work throughout the history of philosophy. In Virtue in Being, he builds on that project to argue for a new way of understanding the relationship between ontology and ethics through insightful readings of texts by Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, and Jacques Derrida. Structuring the book around the themes of violence, evil, and pardon, Benjamin builds a convincing case for the connections he draws between thinkers not commonly associated with one another.

Contents:

Towards the unconditioned: Kant, Epicurus and Glückseligkeit

Arendt and the time of the pardon

Kant, evil, and the unconditioned

Judgment after Derrida.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438461632

1438461631