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  • Essential Vulnerabilities: Plato and Levinas on Relations to the Other

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    Description:
    In Essential Vulnerabilities, Deborah Achtenberg contests Emmanuel Levinas’s idea that Plato is a philosopher of freedom for whom thought is a return to the self. To the contrary, she agrees, Plato, like Levinas, is a philosopher of the other. While they share the view that human beings are essentially vulnerable... and An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at  www.knowledgeunlatched.org.
    Keyword:
    phenomenology, philosophy, Plato, and Levinas
    Subject:
    Philosophy
    Creator:
    Achtenberg, Deborah
    Owner:
    Kirsten Markusic
    Publisher:
    Northwestern University Press
    Language:
    English
    Date Uploaded:
    07/08/2022
    Date Modified:
    07/14/2022
    Date Created:
    2014
    Resource Type:
    Book
    Alternate Identifier:
    eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-6782-7, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3563-5, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-2994-8

  • Original Forgiveness

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    Description:
    This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the Pennsylvania State University. Learn more at the TOME website,... and In Original Forgiveness, Nicolas de Warren challenges the widespread assumption that forgiveness is always a response to something that has incited it. Rather than considering forgiveness exclusively in terms of an encounter between individuals or groups after injury, he argues that availability for the possibility of forgiveness represents an original...
    Keyword:
    phenomenology
    Subject:
    Philosophy
    Creator:
    de Warren, Nicolas
    Owner:
    Chris Diaz
    Publisher:
    Northwestern University Press
    Language:
    English
    Date Uploaded:
    06/01/2020
    Date Modified:
    06/08/2022
    Date Created:
    2020
    Resource Type:
    Book
    Alternate Identifier:
    eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4280-0, Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4279-4, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4278-7

  • Aristotle's Ontology of Change

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    Description:
    This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the Pennsylvania State University. Learn more at the TOME website,... and This book investigates what change is, according to Aristotle, and how it affects his conception of being. Mark Sentesy argues that change leads Aristotle to develop first-order metaphysical concepts such as matter, potency, actuality, sources of being, and the teleology of emerging things. He shows that Aristotle’s distinctive ontological claim—that...
    Keyword:
    metaphysics, philosophy, Aristotle, physics, rereading ancient philosophy, and ancient philosophy
    Subject:
    Philosophy
    Creator:
    Sentesy, Mark
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Publisher:
    Northwestern University Press
    Language:
    English
    Date Uploaded:
    02/20/2020
    Date Modified:
    06/08/2022
    Date Created:
    2020
    Resource Type:
    Book
    Alternate Identifier:
    eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4190-2, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4188-9, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4189-6