Altruism or the Other as the Essence of Existence A Philosophical Passage to Being Altruistic (Value Inquiry Book Series / Studies in Existentialism, Hermeneutics, and Phenomenology, 363)

Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface: For the Words That Follow Unquestioned
Chapter 1 Prologue
	1 Introduction?
Chapter 2 Introducing Altruism
	1 Altruism or Living for Others
	2 Another Positivist Attempt
	3 The Duty of (Effective) Altruism
	4 Moving towards the Other beyond Arguments and Habits
Chapter 3 Pathway One: We Must Live for Others
	1 Minding the Gap of Prescription
	2 From Teleology to Deontology and Back
	3 From Arguing for Altruism towards Beli(e)ving in Altruism
	4 Skepsis on Intentionality
	5 Biosis of Promise
Chapter 4 Pathway Two: The Other
	1 Tracing the Other
	2 Husserl’s Other in Me
	3 Heidegger and the (In)Authentic Being-with Others
	4 Sartre’s Dynamic Self-Other in Entropy
	5 Hodological Options, Horizonizing
Chapter 5 Pathway Three: Presence and Existence
	1 Meet-in(g) the ‘Meta’ of the Physical
	2 Metaphysical Mimodrama
Chapter 6 Pathway Four: To Follow a Scot River or to River a Scot Follow or the Logos of Heraclitus
	1 Undertaking to Disengage Heraclitus’ Logos from Thinking with(in) Being
	2 The Debate
	3 Simple Logos?
	4 Reading dk 1 without Being
	5 Logos through the Other
	6 C-secting the Feminine Body
	7 Logos as Existence: Death and the Promise
Chapter 7 Pathway Five: Toward Understanding and Meaning as Altruism: Requesting the Eyes/Is of the Other
	1 Meaning Like a Reli(e)ving Movement from Dark to Light:  Kant and the Blind Intuition
	2 Knowledge as Delight: Heidegger and the Phenomenon
	3 Peirce’s In-decision and Phaneron
Chapter 8 Pathway Six: Meaning as a Passage from the Other: An Unbracketing
	1 To-words and toward Meaning out of Nothing
	2 The Gift(ing Logos) of the Other
	3 The Givenness of the Orphan and the Orphanity of the Gift
	4 Passage, Promise, Gifting Logos & a Door
	5 Kafka’s (A)mazing D(o)or-Gift
Chapter 9 Epilogical Touches: An Authentically Poor or Aporetic Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Index