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Book SynopsisOntic Ethics: Exploring the Influence of Caring on Being claims that to care more and better is to exist more and better. Much has been written about how character affects action, but this book describes how actions and passions affect character ontologically. H. G. Wright identifies an independent, not culturally relative, source for the ethics of care in an ontology of the self. Ethical and aesthetic flourishing is therefore at once ontological flourishing of the largest, truest self. The book includes many illustrations of how behavior and attitudes have consequences not only for who, but for how much we are. It refines the concept of flourishing, originating with Aristotle, and shows how values that encourage flourishing of the world as it relates to any person, reflexively enhance the flourishing of that person, hence offering a bridge across the fact/value chasm and a cure for ethical relativism. Wright engages classical and modern philosophers writing about the nature of a sel
Table of ContentsChapter I: To Those Who Give It Is Given Chapter II: Entities And Their Ontology Chapter III: The Valuing Self Chapter IV: An Ontology Of The Self Chapter V: Character And Its Relation To Power Chapter VI: Change Originating In Character Chapter VII: Appropriate Objects of Moral Concern and Aesthetic Interest Chapter VIII: Conclusion
