{"id":79,"date":"2005-05-28T22:39:16","date_gmt":"2005-05-29T03:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientphilosophysociety.org\/?p=79"},"modified":"2014-02-03T16:14:46","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T21:14:46","slug":"the-ethics-of-ontology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientphilosophysociety.org\/website\/the-ethics-of-ontology\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ethics of Ontology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Announcing the publication of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.personal.psu.edu\/cpl2\/blogs\/cplportfolio\/\" target=\"_blank\">Christopher P. Long&#8217;s<\/a>, <em>The Ethics of Ontology: Rethinking an Aristotelian Legacy<\/em>, published by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunypress.edu\/details.asp?id=60946\">State University of New York Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The publisher&#8217;s description of the book reads as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A novel rereading of the relationship between ethics and ontology in Aristotle. Concerned with the meaning and function of principles in an era that appears to have given up on their possibility altogether, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.personal.psu.edu\/cpl2\/blogs\/cplportfolio\/\" target=\"_blank\">Christopher P. Long<\/a> traces the paths of Aristotle&#8217;s thinking concerning finite being from the <em>Categories<\/em>, through the <em>Physics<\/em>, to the <em>Metaphysics<\/em>, and ultimately into the <em>Nicomachean Ethics<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Long argues that a dynamic and open conception of principles emerges in these works that challenges the traditional tendency to seek security in permanent and eternal absolutes. He rethinks the meaning of Aristotle&#8217;s notion of principle (<em>arch\u0113<\/em>) and spans the divide of analytic and continental methodological approaches to ancient Greek philosophy, while connecting Aristotle&#8217;s thinking to that of Levinas, Gadamer, and Heidegger.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This book is cogently presented, well written, and easy to follow. Long defends a controversial thesis and provides persuasive and extensive argumentation. The carefully constructed treatment of the relationship between Aristotle&#8217;s theoretical and practical philosophy offers an integrated interpretation of Aristotle&#8217;s philosophy as a whole.&#8221; \u2014 Walter Brogan, coeditor of <em>American Continental Philosophy: A Reader<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Announcing the publication of\u00a0Christopher P. Long&#8217;s, The Ethics of Ontology: Rethinking an Aristotelian Legacy, published by the State University of New York Press. The publisher&#8217;s description of the book reads as follows: A novel rereading of the relationship between ethics and ontology in Aristotle. Concerned with the meaning and function of principles in an era that appears to have given up on their possibility altogether, Christopher P. Long traces the paths of Aristotle&#8217;s thinking concerning . . . <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientphilosophysociety.org\/website\/the-ethics-of-ontology\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-book","bookauthor_tax-chris-long"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ancientphilosophysociety.org\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/05\/517ZAQ7EVKL._SY300_.jpg?fit=182%2C246&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p276B2-1h","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2535,"url":"https:\/\/www.ancientphilosophysociety.org\/website\/soul-and-life-psyche-in-seminal-ancient-greek-thinkers\/","url_meta":{"origin":79,"position":0},"title":"Soul and Life: Psyche in Seminal Ancient Greek Thinkers","author":"Christopher Long","date":"January 20, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"SOUL AND LIFE brings together essays on Greek ontology, psychology, politics, and theories of soul in Socratic thought, Plato, Aristotle, and Herodotus. 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