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Metaphysics of Goodness: Harmony and Form, Beauty and Art, Obligation and Personhood, Flourishing and Civilization

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Develops a theory of culture based on a metaphysics that elaborates on the Platonic and Confucian traditions. In Metaphysics of Goodness, Robert Cummings Neville extends Alfred North Whitehead's project of cultural studies, which was based on a new metaphysics that Whitehead developed in Adventures of Ideas. Neville's focus is value or goodness in many modes. The metaphysics treated in this book derive from the Platonic and Confucian traditions, with significant modifications of Whitehead, Peirce, Dewey, Confucius, Xunzi, and Zhou Dunyi. Part one develops a theory of form based on a metaphysics of harmony. Part two elaborates a theory of art based on a metaphysics of beauty. Part three sketches a theory of personhood based on a metaphysics of obligation. Part four discusses civilization in a systematic way based on a metaphysics of flourishing. Throughout the book, Neville elaborates a theory of interpretation that is inspired by Peirce, Dewey, and Xunzi but is not limited to their ideas. While the reasoning of the book is concise, it employs methodologies from many kinds of philosophy, art criticism, ethics, and cultural studies, and sees philosophy as needing to learn from all these disciplines.

Table of Contents:
Preface: A Philosophy of Goodness Philosophical Background and Context The Plot Acknowledgments Part I. Goodness in Harmony and Form 1. Goodness in Experience Ubiquity, Evolution, and Aesthetic Perception Harmonies Defined, and Ecosystems Situations, Perspectives, and Sunsets Goodness Experienced 2. A Metaphysics of Form as Goodness Density of Being and Existential Fields Quantity, Complexity, Simplicity, and Elegance Narrowness, Width, Vagueness, and Triviality Focus, Field, Intensity, and Immediacy 3. A Cosmology of Form as Goodness Possibilities, Determinism, Indeterminism, and Temporality Actuality, Becoming, Conditions, and Loci of Goodness Goodness-Identity 4. Testing the Theory The Question of the Meaning of Goodness Imaginative Analytic of Goodness Immediacy and Mediacy in Framing Intensity Goodness, Engagement, Relations, and Experience Part II. Goodness in Beauty and Art 5. Beauty in Form Beauty as What Is Good in Itself Beauty as Ubiquitous and Ultimate Beauty as Simplification Beauty as Experienced 6. Beauty in Art Art as an Elementary Human Process Art in Motivation and Creativity Art as a Basic Response to Existence Art and Religion 7. To Appreciate Arts Beauty for Appreciation Beauty in Form Beauty in Actualizing Form Beauty in Repose 8. To Create Arts To Seek Beauty To Seek Beauty in Form To Seek Beauty in Actualizing Form Beauty in Achieving Beauty: The Artistic Life Part III. Goodness in Obligation and Personhood 9. Goodness in Being True Goodness as Conformity The Goodness of Truth Being True The Obligation to Inquiry 10. Goodness in Being Moral Morality as a Two-Term Relation Obligation with Freedom Obligation without Freedom Achievement of Responsible Identity 11. Goodness in Being Right Engagement Appropriate Engagement with the Contours of the World Engagement as Self-Constitution Engagement as Finite Limitation 12. Goodness in Being Virtuous Conformation to the Ultimate Content of Life The Harmony of Virtue Virtue-Identity Virtue and the World’s Goodness Part IV. Goodness in Flourishing and Civilization 13. Goodness in Human Flourishing Goodness in Contexts Civilization Flourishing The Global Context of High Civilizations 14. Goodness in Rituals and Institutions A General Theory of Ritual Rituals in Human Flourishing Institutions in High Civilization Rituals in Global Society and Civilization 15. Goodness in Creativity and Spirit Initiative Making a Life Pursuit of Beauty The Spirit of Creativity 16. The Goodness in Civilization Culture and Civilization Spirit of Civilization: Character Energy Creativity Notes Bibliography Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781438477435
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 400
  • Spine Width: 28 mm
  • Weight: 703 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1438477430
  • Publisher Date: 15 Oct 2019
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Harmony and Form, Beauty and Art, Obligation and Personhood, Flourishing and Civilization
  • Width: 152 mm


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