Virtue in Being: Towards an Ethics of the Unconditioned (SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

Towards the unconditioned: Kant, Epicurus and Glückseligkeit -- Arendt and the time of the pardon -- Kant, evil, and the unconditioned -- Judgment after Derrida. In his last book, Towards a Relational Ontology , Andrew Benjamin provided a philosophical account of what he terms anoriginal relationality, demonstrating how this concept can be seen to be at work throughout the history of philosophy. In Virtue in Being , he builds on that project to argue for a new way of understanding the relationship between ontology and ethics through insightful readings of texts by Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, and Jacques Derrida. Structuring the book around the themes of violence, evil, and pardon, Benjamin builds a convincing case for the connections he draws between thinkers not commonly associated with one another. Contents 6 Acknowledgments 8 Introduction 10 Chapter 1. Toward the Unconditioned:Kant, Epicurus and Glückseligkeit 24 1. 26 Chapter 2. Arendt and the Time of the Pardon 60 1. 62 2. 69 3. 81 4. 88 Chapter 3. Kant, Evil, and the Unconditioned 96 1. 97 2. 105 3. 113 4. 125 Chapter 4. Judgment after Derrida 134 1. 135 2. 155 3. 162 4. 170 Notes 178 Bibliography 208 Index 216