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

by Robert Cummings Neville

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438477430
• ISBN13: 9781438477435
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"