The Gift of Truth: Gathering the Good - Tapa blanda

"I like Ross's attempts to demonstrate how a striving for 'the good' is the characteristic striving or desire of 'the' philosophical endeavor from Plato and Aristotle, through Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Kant, and Hegel, to Nietzsche, Heidegger, Levinas, and Irigaray.

"Ross engages thinkers in their own terms, selectively embracing the gifts and achievements proffered by the thinker, and then moving on to rethink and reoffer these gifts as appropriate to his concerns.

"Ross's presentation of an ongoing philosophical analysis on the project of gifts--the gifts of touch, nature, work, place, law, authority, property...of the good--is a rare effort in contemporary philosophy." -- Gayle L. Ormiston, Kent State University