Philosophy and Its Others: Ways of Being and MindPhilosophy and its Others responds to the widespread sense that philosophy must renew its intellectual community with other significant ways of being and mind. The author articulates philosophy's community of mind with the aesthetic, the religious, and the ethical, without losing any of its own distinctive voice. He develops an original and constructive position between these extremes: the Hegelian extreme which reduces the plurality of others to a dialectical totality and the Wittgensteinian and deconstructive options that celebrate plurality, but without a proper sense of the connectedness of philosophy and its others. |
Contents
The Metaxological View | 3 |
Structure of the Work | 9 |
Philosophy and the Scholar | 21 |
Philosophy and the Scientist | 29 |
Philosophy and the Priest | 39 |
Philosophy and the Hero | 48 |
Philosophy and the Sage | 55 |
Being Aesthetic | 63 |
The Problematic Religious Middle | 146 |
Being Ethical | 159 |
The Selfmediation of the Ethical Middle | 172 |
Ethical Inwardness and the Middle | 184 |
Ethical Community and Recalcitrant Otherness | 201 |
Being Mindful and Failure | 242 |
Songs of the Elemental | 269 |
Songs of Death and Time | 283 |
Art and the Aesthetic Middle | 83 |
Loss of the Aesthetic Middle | 93 |
Being Religious | 111 |
The Mediation of the Religious Middle | 121 |
Metaxological Openness to Sacred Otherness | 131 |
Religious Inwardness and the Metaxological Mediation | 141 |
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