TY - BOOK ID - 23427074 TI - Ethics and the between AU - Desmond, William AU - State University of New York PY - 2001 VL - *10 SN - 9780791448489 0791448487 0791448479 PB - Albany State University of New York DB - UniCat KW - Ethics, Modern. KW - Ethics, Modern KW - Academic collection KW - 17 KW - Modern ethics KW - 17 Filosofische ethiek KW - Filosofische ethiek KW - General ethics KW - 17 Moral philosophy. Ethics. Practical philosophy KW - Moral philosophy. Ethics. Practical philosophy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:23427074 AB - This book offers an original understanding of metaphysical thinking and the fundamental senses of being, namely, the univocal, equivocal, dialectical, and metaxological senses. Part I focuses on the nature of metaphysics, the question of being, in terms of the above fourfold sense. Part II develops a metaphysics of being as between, relative to our basic perplexities, concerning origin, creation, things, intelligibilities, selves, communities, being true, being good. The book calls for a generous hermeneutical rethinking of the philosophical tradition. Major figures and positions are reinterpreted. Desmond addresses the issue, common since Hegel, endemic since Heidegger, concerning the end of metaphysics. Granting a proper understanding of the between, Desmond believes that we need a resurrection of metaphysics, where the old perplexities, ever new, stand before us again. (Publisher's description) ER -