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The Gift of Truth : gathering the good / Stephen David Ross.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, c 1997Description: xv, 265p. ; 23cmISBN:
  • 079143267X (alk. paper)
  • 0791432688 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 111.84 22 ROS
Contents:
General Preface to the Project: The Gift of the Good -- Introduction: The Good in Truth -- Ch. 1. Soul Wings -- Ch. 2. Bird Flight -- Ch. 3. Bat Ears -- Ch. 4. Brute Truth -- Ch. 5. Mad Will -- Ch. 6. Full Body -- Ch. 7. True Experience -- Ch. 8. Miraculous Authority -- Ch. 9. Moving Truth -- Ch. 10. True Being -- Ch. 11. Woman's Truth -- Ch. 12. Fecund Exposure -- Ch. 13. Abundant Truth.
Summary: This volume traces the history of the idea of truth as an ethical movement, exploring those developments in Western thought, from Plato and Aristotle through Kant and Hegel, when ethics was separated from science and philosophy. At the heart of the project is a reexamination of the good, found in Plato as that which makes being possible, which gives authority to knowledge and beckons to art, preserved in Levinas as infinite responsibility.The idea of the good is interpreted as nature's abundance, giving beauty and truth as gifts. It gives rise to an ethics of inclusion.
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Books Hamu Mukasa Library Open Access / General collection 111.84 ROS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 91016

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-247) and index.

General Preface to the Project: The Gift of the Good -- Introduction: The Good in Truth -- Ch. 1. Soul Wings -- Ch. 2. Bird Flight -- Ch. 3. Bat Ears -- Ch. 4. Brute Truth -- Ch. 5. Mad Will -- Ch. 6. Full Body -- Ch. 7. True Experience -- Ch. 8. Miraculous Authority -- Ch. 9. Moving Truth -- Ch. 10. True Being -- Ch. 11. Woman's Truth -- Ch. 12. Fecund Exposure -- Ch. 13. Abundant Truth.

This volume traces the history of the idea of truth as an ethical movement, exploring those developments in Western thought, from Plato and Aristotle through Kant and Hegel, when ethics was separated from science and philosophy. At the heart of the project is a reexamination of the good, found in Plato as that which makes being possible, which gives authority to knowledge and beckons to art, preserved in Levinas as infinite responsibility.

The idea of the good is interpreted as nature's abundance, giving beauty and truth as gifts. It gives rise to an ethics of inclusion.

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