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Phenomenology, in its traditional encounters with ethics, has
commonly aimed at a more descriptive rather than prescriptive goal.
The direction of this project, however, is both phenomenological
and prescriptive as I attempt to provide a phenomenological
foundation for communitarian ethical theory. I argue, following
Husserl, that the Ego and the Other arise together in sense and
thus we are committed to community in a foundational way. I am
always and fundamentally constituted as a member of a community -
as a Self among Others - and, given this, there are certain ethical
implications. Namely, there is a communal Good of which my good is
but a perspective; indeed, it is a perspective on a Good which
encompasses the whole of the living world and not just humanity.
Consequently, we are foundationally imbedded in a deep community
and a deep communitarian ethic.
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Plato's Animals - Gadflies, Horses, Swans, and Other Philosophical Beasts (Hardcover, annotated edition)
Jeremy Bell, Michael Naas; Contributions by Christopher Long, Claudia Baracchi, Sara Brill, …
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Plato's Animals examines the crucial role played by animal images,
metaphors, allusions, and analogies in Plato's Dialogues. These
fourteen lively essays demonstrate that the gadflies, snakes,
stingrays, swans, dogs, horses, and other animals that populate
Plato's work are not just rhetorical embellishments. Animals are
central to Plato's understanding of the hierarchy between animals,
humans, and gods and are crucial to his ideas about education,
sexuality, politics, aesthetics, the afterlife, the nature of the
soul, and philosophy itself. The volume includes a comprehensive
annotated index to Plato's bestiary in both Greek and English.
Plato's Animals examines the crucial role played by animal images,
metaphors, allusions, and analogies in Plato's Dialogues. These
fourteen lively essays demonstrate that the gadflies, snakes,
stingrays, swans, dogs, horses, and other animals that populate
Plato's work are not just rhetorical embellishments. Animals are
central to Plato's understanding of the hierarchy between animals,
humans, and gods and are crucial to his ideas about education,
sexuality, politics, aesthetics, the afterlife, the nature of the
soul, and philosophy itself. The volume includes a comprehensive
annotated index to Plato's bestiary in both Greek and English.
Taking Edmund Husserl's dictum to heart yet finding in it a new
direction,
"Animal Others brings together original contributions that explore
the status of animals from the continental philosophy perspective.
Examined are the moral status of animals, the question of animal
minds, an understanding of what it is to be an animal and what it
is to be with an animal, as well as the roles animals play in the
work of philosophers such as Husserl, Heidegger, Nietzsche,
Merleau-Ponty, and Derrida."--BOOK JACKET.
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