Ordering of Time

George Lucas is Distinguished Chair of Ethics and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at The United States Naval Academy. He is General Editor of The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Alfred North Whitehead.

• Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction: Injustice in the Margins of Time and History; 1. Ordering Time: Thinking with the Presocratics; 2. The Tragical History of Doctor Beneke; 3. Philosophy’s Recovery of its History; 4. Three Rival Conceptions of Philosophical Discourse; 5. Art, Philosophy and the Shapes of the Past; 6. A New Methodology for Philosophy; 7. The Critique of Enlightenment and the Question Concerning Metaphysics; 8. Scientific Revolutions and the Search for Covariant Metaphysical Principles; 9. People without a Name; Bibliography; Index.

Full of great insights about the point and mode of philosophy both as history and as normative work helping readers better understand themselves as philosophers in their historical context. Summing Up: Highly recommended.