Why Ethics? (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
384
Utgivningsdatum
2000-09-01
Upplaga
illustrated ed
Förlag
Princeton University Press
Originalspråk
English
Medarbetare
Hong, Howard V.
Illustrationer
2 tables
Dimensioner
233 x 155 x 26 mm
Vikt
581 g
Antal komponenter
1
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2:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Perfect Bound on Creme w/Gloss Lam
ISBN
9780691009636

Why Ethics?

Signs of Responsibilities

av Robert Gibbs
Häftad,  Engelska, 2000-09-01
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Robert Gibbs presents here an ambitious new theory of ethics. Drawing on a striking combination of intellectual traditions, including Jewish thought, continental philosophy, and American pragmatism, Gibbs argues that ethics is primarily concerned with responsibility and is not--as philosophers have often assumed--principally a matter of thinking about the right thing to do and acting in accordance with the abstract dictates of reason or will. More specifically, ethics is concerned with attending to others' questions and bearing responsibility for what they do. Gibbs builds this innovative case by exploring the implicit responsibilities in a broad range of human interactions, paying especially close attention to the signs that people give and receive as they relate to each other. Why Ethics? starts by examining the simple actions of listening and speaking, reading and writing, and by focusing on the different responsibilities that each action entails. The author discusses what he describes as the mutual responsibilities implicit in the actions of reasoning, mediating, and judging. He assesses the relationships among ethics, pragmatics, and Jewish philosophy. The book concludes by looking at the relation of memory and the immemorial, emphasizing the need to respond for past actions by confessing, seeking forgiveness, and making reconciliations. In format, Gibbs adopts a Talmudic approach, interweaving brief citations from primary texts with his commentary. He draws these texts from diverse thinkers and sources, including Levinas, Derrida, Habermas, Rosenzweig, Luhmann, Peirce, James, Royce, Benjamin, Maimonides, the Bible, and the Talmud. Ranging over philosophy, literary theory, social theory, and historiography, this is an ambitious and provocative work that holds profound lessons for how we think about ethics and how we seek to live responsibly.
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"In this thought-provoking new book, Gibbs centers ethics on personal responsibility ...He combines analysis of the Talmud with the pragmatics of Charles Peirce, George Herbert Mead, and Jurgen Habermas in an unusual and illuminating way."--Library Journal "[An] excellent, challenging work... In focusing on responsibility, Gibbs clearly seeks to change the parameters of ethical inquiry. Yet what makes his work so successful is that it takes modern ethics seriously even while questioning it, seeking to hear its concerns while repairing the harm and suffering its excesses have caused. It ... provides an excellent model for how religious ethics can both take responsibility for and transform modern inquiry."--William W. Young III, Theological Studies

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Robert Gibbs is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. Author of Correlations in Rosenzweig and Levinas and coauthor of Reasoning after Revelation: Dialogues in Postmodern Jewish Philosophy, he has written widely on questions of contemporary continental philosophy and its relations with Jewish thought.

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Acknowledgments xi Abbreviations and Notes on Citations xiii Introduction Why Questions? 3 A. The Response in Responsibility 3 B. Signs 6 C. Commentaries l0 D. A Map 13 E. The Authors and Texts 23 Part I: Attending the Future 27 Chapter 1: Why Listen? 29 A. Attending the Teacher 31 B. Asymmetry 35 C. Receiving the World 37 D. The Face and Consciosness 40 E. Apology 44 Chapter 2 Why Speak? 47 A. The Saving 48 B. Bodily Signifying 50 C. Saying the Saying 58 D. Witness to Glory 61 Chapter 3: Why Write? 66 A. Writing Withdratual 67 B. Saying and Writing 74 C. The Trace and Crossing out 79 Chapter 4: Why Read? 86 A. The Hidden Thread 87 B. Closure of Philosophy 89 C. Re-citation 95 Chapter 5: Why Comment? 114 A. The Written Command 115 B. Reading and Separation 116 C. Commentaries 123 Part II: Presentjudgments 131 Chapter 6: Why Reason? 133 A. The Third and Justice 134 B. Mutuality and Justice 141 C. Mutuality and Asymmetry 145 Chapter 7: Why Mediate? 156 A. Communication and Love 157 B. Media for Communication 167 C. Mediating Consensus 171 Chapter 8: Why Judge? 178 A. Attribution 180 B. We and Ye 182 C. Universality and the Outside 187 D. Judgment Day 192 E. Unjust Judgment 200 Chapter 9: Why Law? 210 A. Justifying the World 211 B. Preserving Contradictions 214 ' C Judgment and the Oppressed 218 Part III: Pragmatism, Pragmatics, and Method 225 Chapter 10: Why Verify? 227 A. Performative Method 229 B. Empiricisms: Absolute and Radical 234 C. Pragmatism and Pragmaticism 239 Chapter 11: Why Thirds? 246 A. The Third Person 247 B. Interpretation and Thirds 251 Chapter 12: Why Me? 258 A. Interpreters and Signs 259 B. Me and I 259 C. The Indeclinable Accusative (Me) 272 Chapter 13: Why Translate? 278 A. Reason and Jewish Sources 280 B. Jewish New Thinking 286 C. Contemporary Translation 290 D. A Necessary Trial 298 Part IV: Repenting History 305 Chapter 14: Why Repent? 307 A. Return 308 B. Great Is Repentance 310 C. Social Repentance 319 Chapter 15: Why Confess? 325 A. Confessing Orally 326 B. Performance of the "I" 329 C. Confession of Love 334 Chapter 16 Why Forgive? 338 A. Forgive or Forget 339 B. Changing the Past 341 C. Being Forgiven 345 Chapter 17: Why Remember? 354 A. Calendars 355 B. Historiography 362 C. Ruins and Remnants 372 Epilogue Postmodern Jewish Philosophy and Modernity 380 Pretext Index 385 Name Index 391 Subject Index 395

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