Founding Community : A Phenomenological-Ethical Inquiry /
Phenomenology, in its traditional encounters with ethics, has commonly aimed at a more descriptive rather than prescriptive goal. The direction of this project, however, is both phenomenological and prescriptive as I attempt to provide a phenomenological foundation for communitarian ethical theory....
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
1998.
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| Series: | Phaenomenologica, Series Founded by H.L. van Breda and Published under the Auspices of the Husserl-Archives ;
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| Summary: | Phenomenology, in its traditional encounters with ethics, has commonly aimed at a more descriptive rather than prescriptive goal. The direction of this project, however, is both phenomenological and prescriptive as I attempt to provide a phenomenological foundation for communitarian ethical theory. I argue, following Husserl, that the Ego and the Other arise together in sense and thus we are committed to community in a foundational way. I am always and fundamentally constituted as a member of a community - as a Self among Others - and, given this, there are certain ethical implications. Namely, there is a communal Good of which my good is but a perspective; indeed, it is a perspective on a Good which encompasses the whole of the living world and not just humanity. Consequently, we are foundationally imbedded in a deep community and a deep communitarian ethic. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 161 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9789401151825 (electronic bk.) 9401151822 (electronic bk.) |
| ISSN: | 0079-1350 ; |