ABSTRACT
Philosophy can recover the positive significance of indeterminacy by construing the indeterminate as transcending philosophical knowing, where the latter is a constraint or negation of the former. Indeterminacy is the negation of the Latin determinatus, which signifies limit. Determinacy seems to be constituted by a structure of something and other, each of which is its own reality and negates what is distinct from it. Indeterminacy can overcome its overwhelmingly negative significance by becoming existential or free science. Although faith engenders a contradiction, and is necessary for the full realization of freedom, philosophy can recognize the need for something that it cannot accomplish. Robert Scott argues that a phenomenological retrieval of the Aristotelian intellectual virtues can both renew the latter and show how the positive significance of indeterminacy can be recovered as integral to philosophic wisdom. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
