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Morality
About: Morality is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 22623 publications have been published within this topic receiving 545733 citations. The topic is also known as: moral & morals.
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03 Sep 2003
TL;DR: In "Humanism of the Other", Levinas argues that it is not only possible but of the highest exigency to understand one's humanity through the humanity of others as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: In "Humanism of the Other", Emmanuel Levinas argues that it is not only possible but of the highest exigency to understand one's humanity through the humanity of others. Based in a new appreciation for ethics, and taking new distances from the phenomenology of Hegel, Heidegger, Husserl, and Merleau-Ponty, the idealism of Plato and Kant, and the skepticism of Nietzsche and Blanchot, Levinas rehabilitates humanism and restore its promises. He expresses disappointment with the revolutions that became bureaucracies and totalitarian governments, and the national liberation movements that eventually led to oppression and international wars. Defining the human as subject, ego, synthesis, identification, cognition, and mood all too easily lead to subjugation, persecution, and murder. Painfully aware of the long history of dehumanization which reached its apotheosis in Hitler and Nazism, Levinas does not underestimate the difficulty of reconciling oneself with another. The humanity of the human, Levinas argues, is not discoverable through mathematics, rational metaphysics or introspection. Rather, it is found in the recognition that the suffering and mortality of others are the obligations and morality of the self.
278 citations
TL;DR: It is argued that the capacity to draw the moral/conventional distinction depends on both a body of information about which actions are prohibited (a Normative Theory) and an affective mechanism and this account leads to the prediction that other normative prohibitions that are connected to an Affective mechanism might be treated as non-conventional.
277 citations
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20 Mar 1997
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the quality of public discourse patterns of expressing difference and the importance of communicating and expressing difference in moral conflict. And they propose new forms of eloquence models for constructing a transcendent discourse.
Abstract: PART ONE: MORAL CONFLICT Discovering Moral Conflict Understanding Conflict The Problem of Moral Conflict PART TWO: COMMUNICATION AND THE EXPRESSION OF DIFFERENCE The Quality of Public Discourse Patterns of Expressing Difference Fighting and Making Peace PART THREE: TOWARD A TRANSCENDENT DISCOURSE New Forms of Eloquence Model Projects in Transcendent Discourse Achieving Transcendence
275 citations
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01 Jan 1990
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273 citations