The gift of kinds : the good in abundance : an ethic of the Earth /
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Albany, N.Y. :
State University of New York Press,
©1999.
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Table of Contents:
- General preface to the project: Gifts of the good
- The fourth of several volumes devoted to the good
- Human, natural worlds filled with gifts
- Nature the general economy of the good, earth's abundance
- Resisting authority and totality
- Plato's idea of the good beyond measure
- Unlimiting every limit, interrupting authority
- Gifts and giving
- Exposure interruption, calling for responsiveness, responsibility
- Cherishment exposure to the good everywhere in generosity
- Sacrifice impossibility of fulfillment
- Plenishment crossing cherishment and sacrifice
- Inexhaustible exposure to the good
- Socrates' suggestion that the good grants authority to knowledge and truth
- Anaximander and injustice in all things, demanding restitution
- The good as ideality
- Volumes projected in this project
- Began with art in response to Nietzsche's interruption of authority in name of art
- Continue within possibility that Western philosophic tradition has always given precedence to truth and being, neutralizing the good
- This volume addresses kinds of the earth as ecstatic revelations of life and being, resistant to neutrality
- Introduction: The Abundance of Kinds
- Spinoza and abundance of kinds
- God and nature expressed in infinite numbers of infinite kinds
- Nature composed of infinite individuals, each expressed through infinite kinds
- Conatus, desire
- Love of God, Dei amor, beatitudo, blessedness
- Kind
- Tyranny of kinds: using other kinds in any way whatever
- Interruption: essentialism and identity politics.