Ethics and Selfhood (PDF)
Alterity and the Phenomenology of Obligation
(Sprache: Englisch)
According to James R. Mensch, a minimal requirement for ethics is that of guarding against genocide. In deciding which races are to live and which to die, genocide takes up a standpoint outside of humanity. To guard against this, Mensch argues that we must...
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According to James R. Mensch, a minimal requirement for ethics is that of guarding against genocide. In deciding which races are to live and which to die, genocide takes up a standpoint outside of humanity. To guard against this, Mensch argues that we must attain the critical distance required for ethical judgment without assuming a superhuman position. His description of how to attain this distance constitutes a genuinely new reading of the possibility of a phenomenological ethics, one that involves reassessing what it means to be a self. Selfhood, according to Mensch, involves both embodiment and the self-separation brought about by our encounter with others-the very others who provide us with the experiential context needed for moral judgment. Buttressing his position with documented accounts of those who hid Jews during the Holocaust, Mensch shows how the self-separation that occurs in empathy opens the space within which moral judgment can occur and obligation can find its expression. He includes a reading of the major moral philosophers-Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Mill, Arendt, Levinas-even as he develops a phenomenological account of the necessity of reading literature to understand the full extent of ethical responsibility. Mensch's work offers an original and provocative approach to a topic of fundamental importance.
Autoren-Porträt von James R. Mensch
James R. Mensch is Professor of Philosophy at Saint Francis Xavier University. He is the author of several books, including After Modernity: Husserlian Reflections on a Philosophical Tradition and Intersubjectivity and Transcendental Idealism, both published by SUNY Press.
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- Autor: James R. Mensch
- 2012, 225 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: State University of New York Press
- ISBN-10: 0791486699
- ISBN-13: 9780791486696
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.02.2012
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