The person and the common life : studies in a Husserlian social ethics /

This Husserl-based social ethics claims that the properly philosophical life -- i.e. one lived within the noetic-noematic field -- is not cut off from action. Indeed, the ethical and political dimensions of the person are disclosed through various reductions. At the passive-synthetic level as well a...

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Main Author: Hart, James G., 1936-
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [1992]
Series:Phaenomenologica ; 126.
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Summary:This Husserl-based social ethics claims that the properly philosophical life -- i.e. one lived within the noetic-noematic field -- is not cut off from action. Indeed, the ethical and political dimensions of the person are disclosed through various reductions. At the passive-synthetic level as well as at the higher founded levels of personal constitution a basic sense of will emerges, the telos of which is a godly intersubjective self-ideal. This `truth of will' is inseparably an `ought' and an `is' involving moral categoriality as a way of letting the good of others be part of one's own. Both moral categoriality and the polis actuate the latent first-person plural dative of manifestation which emerges with a common world. Thereby they actuate also senses of the common life which can develop to community as a higher-order person. This leads to a eutopian anti-statist theory of the polis and common good which has affinity with some communitarian-anarchist and `Green' views.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 482 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 468-475) and index.
ISBN:9789401579919 (electronic bk.)
9401579911 (electronic bk.)