Publication Type
Book Chapter
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
1-2015
Abstract
What can comparative philosophy contribute to thinking about values, economics, and justice? Can we apply philosophy in general, and comparative philosophy in particular, to these problems directly? Martin Heidegger, one of the protagonists of this article, has on occasion made it clear that philosophy is literally “useless” and so let me start with one of my favourite Heidegger quotes, to give the reader an indication of what this paper tries to think: “philosophy … cannot be directly applied, or judged by its usefulness in the manner of economic or other professional knowledge. But what is useless can still be a force, perhaps the only real force.”
Discipline
Philosophy
Research Areas
Humanities
Publication
Value and Values: Economics and Justice in an Age of Global Interdependence
Editor
Roger T. Ames, & Peter D. Hershock
First Page
400
Last Page
417
ISBN
9780824839673
Identifier
10.21313/hawaii/9780824839673.003.0023
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
City or Country
Honolulu
Citation
BURIK, Steven. (2015). Invaluable Justice: Heidegger, Derrida, and Daoism on Thinking of Values and Justice. In Value and Values: Economics and Justice in an Age of Global Interdependence (pp. 400-417). Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1595
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.21313/hawaii/9780824839673.003.0023