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  title info:
    title: Towards a polemical ethics
    sub title: between Heidegger and Plato
  name:
    name part: Fried, Gregory
    name part: 1961-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mdu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxvi, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Martin Heidegger held Plato responsible for inaugurating the slow slide of the West into nihilism and the apocalyptic crisis of modernity. In this book, Gregory Fried defends Plato against Heidegger's critiques. While taking seriously Heidegger's analysis of human finitude and historicity, Fried argues that Heidegger neglects the transcending ideals that necessarily guide human life as situated in time and place. That neglect results in Heidegger's disastrous politics, unhinged from a practical reason grounded in the philosophical search from a truth that transcends historical contingency. Thinking both with and against Heidegger, Fried shows how Plato's skeptical idealism provides an ethics that captures both the situatedness of finite human existence and the need for transcendent ideals. The result is a novel way of understanding politics and ethical life that Fried calls a polemical ethics, which mediates between finitude and transcendence by engaging in constructive confrontation with both traditions and other persons. The contradiction between the founding ideals of the United States and its actual history of racism and slavery provides an occasion to discuss polemical ethics in practice.
  note: Gregory Fried.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-288) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Plato
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Heidegger, Martin
      name part: 1889-1976
  subject:
    topic: Ethics
  subject:
    topic: Political science
    topic: Philosophy
  classification: B395 .F74 2021
  classification: 170
  related item:
    title info:
      title: New Heidegger research
  identifier: 9781786610003
  identifier: 1786610000
  identifier: 9781786610027
  identifier: 2020057009
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210115
    record change date: 20211018100646.0
    record identifier: in00004446679