After Ontotheology: Reciprocal, Caring, Creative, and Right Relationships

• Authors: Jim Garrison
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

With the end of ontotheology we may realize, as Dewey did, that what sustains us is our caring relationships with physical nature, biological life, and other persons. My paper argues that relationships are ontologically basic and caring relations are morally basic. Right relationship binds us to the world and holds us together. We live by the grace of others. I conclude that after ontotheology, we must seek to form reciprocal, caring, and creative relationships.

Keywords

EN

Caring; ontotheology; creativity; relationships

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Human Affairs
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 19
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 36-43

Dates

published

2009-06-01

online

2009-03-21

Contributors

author

Jim Garrison

• School of Education, Department of Philosophy, Science and Technology Studies, 400 WMH Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0313

References

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• Noddings, N.Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984/2003.
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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10023-009-0018-8