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Reexamines the good, tracing the history of the idea of truth as an ethical movement, and interpreting the good as nature's abundance, giving beauty and truth as gifts.
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.
"I like Ross's attempts to demonstrate how a striving for 'the good' is the characteristic striving or desire of 'the' philosophical endeavor from Plato and Aristotle, through Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Kant, and Hegel, to Nietzsche, Heidegger, Levinas, and Irigaray.
"Ross engages thinkers in their own terms, selectively embracing the gifts and achievements proffered by the thinker, and then moving on to rethink and reoffer these gifts as appropriate to his concerns.
"Ross's presentation of an ongoing philosophical analysis on the project of gifts—the gifts of touch, nature, work, place, law, authority, property...of the good—is a rare effort in contemporary philosophy." — Gayle L. Ormiston, Kent State University
(Abridged)
General Preface to the Project: The Gift of the Good
Introduction: The Good in Truth
1. Soul Wings
2. Bird Flight
3. Bat Ears
4. Brute Truth
5. Mad Will
6. Full Body
7. True Experience
8. Miraculous Authority
9. Moving Truth
10. True Being
11. Woman's Truth
12. Fecund Exposure
13. Abundant Truth
Notes
Bibliography
Index