The gift of truth
Subtitle: gathering the good
By: Stephen David Ross.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Albany, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: Truth; Knowledge, Theory of; Good and evil
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-247) and index.