The Ethical Relation and Time

1991 ◽  
pp. 220-247
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Levinas
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Relation

Ethics and entangled embodiment: Bodies–materialities–organization

Organization ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Dale ◽  
Yvonne Latham
Keyword(s):  
Disabled People ◽  
Material World ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Ethical Relation ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Political Position ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Radical Alterity ◽  
The Disabled

In this article, we are concerned with the ethical implications of the entanglement of embodiment and non-human materialities. We argue for an approach to embodiment which recognises its inextricable relationship with multiple materialities. From this, three ethical points are made: first, we argue for an ethical relation to ‘things’ not simply as inanimate objects but as the neglected Others of humanity’s (social and material) world. Second, there is a need to recognise different particularities within these entanglements. We draw on the work of Merleau-Ponty and Levinas to think through how the radical alterity of these Others can be acknowledged, whilst also recognising our intercorporeal intertwining with them. Third, we argue that recognition of this interconnectedness and entanglement is a necessary ethical and political position from which the drawing of boundaries and creation of separations that are inherent in social organising can be understood and which contribute to the denigration, discrimination and dismissal of particular forms of embodiment, including those of non-human Others. In order to explore the ethical implications of these entanglements, we draw upon fieldwork in a large UK-based not-for-profit organisation which seeks to provide support for disabled people through a diverse range of services. Examining entanglements in relation to the disabled body makes visible and problematises the multiple differences of embodiments and their various interrelationships with materiality.

scholarly journals Ethical Relation between Physicians and Pharmaceutical Industries in the Perspectives of Bangladesh

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Shahinul Alam ◽  
Nahiduz Saman ◽  
Monsur Hallaj Hallaj ◽  
Jahangir Ul Alam ◽  
Shoaib Momen Majumder
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Pharmaceutical Industry ◽  
Ethical Guidelines ◽  
Ethical Relation ◽  
Guide Line ◽  
Current Scenario ◽  
Pharmaceutical Industries ◽  
Scientific Meetings ◽  
The Right

Relation between physicians and pharmaceutical industry is required for the benefit of the patient. But it may turn into business and overthrow the patients’ benefit. The relation might be in question at present and in future. Several questions are flowing in Bangladesh. To solve these queries we have explored the situation in developed and developing countries. The physicians and associations of pharmaceutical industries developed several ethical guidelines in those countries. They have addressed the long lasting issues on gift provided to physician, cash back, sample, industry sponsored scientific meetings, research and hospitality. There are huge restrictions to ensure the right of the patient’s e.g. limitation of inexpensive gift by the pharmaceuticals, avoiding expensive medicine instead of equally effective low priced medicine. We are lacking behind to protect the patient right properly: regulation, adherence to existing guide line, lack of guidance from statutory bodies. The current scenario is far behind the right of patient. In Bangladesh it is not yet addressed either by professionals or by pharmaceutical associations. It is the immediate need to construct a guide line for physicians and pharmaceutical industry of Bangladesh.Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics 2015 Vol.6 (1):1-5

The Face of Judgement in Measure for Measure

2019 ◽  
pp. 163-175
Author(s):  
Kevin Curran
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Ethical Relation ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Faculty Psychology ◽  
Affective Quality ◽  
Legal Writing ◽  
Measure For Measure ◽  
The Face

Like a number of other Renaissance comedies and romances, Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure ends with a scene of judgment in which punishment and reward is distributed among a group of characters. Measure for Measure insistently links judgment to the spatial and revelatory dynamics of facing and unmasking. Adducing evidence from two early modern archives – legal writing on the theory and practice of judgment and treatises on physiology and faculty psychology – Kevin Curran addresses two related questions: (1) What can a historical understanding of the face in early modern culture tell us about the phenomenology of judgment in Measure for Measure? And (2) how does Shakespeare’s staging of judgment create a participatory experience in the playhouse grounded in sensation? The essay ultimately argues that the face in Measure for Measure functions as a hinge between the ethical relation of judgment and the ethical relation of theater, one that insists of the embodied and affective quality of both forms of interaction.

Dostoevsky and the Ethical Relation to the Prisoner

Renascence ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 259-278
Author(s):  
Paul J. Contino ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Relation

scholarly journals Tacto, promesa y convicción: Conjunción ética de tradición e innovación en Paul Ricoeur

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-47
Author(s):  
Beatriz Contreras Tasso
Keyword(s):  
Practical Wisdom ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Ethical Relation ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Fine Distinction

The ethics of solicitude in Ricoeur combines a detailed articulation of three polarized moments which spring from fertile traditional sources: Aristotelian phrónesis, the Kantian deontological legacy, and the formulation of Hegelian Sittlichkeit. The Ricoeurian over-determination of these models exhibits a careful critical re-appropriation, whose hermeneutical originality takes account of its fertility philosophy to address current ethical demands and their more important oppositions. This overdeterminataion proposes a fine distinction of levels of mediation and stages of fulfillment. Practical wisdom is the result of this interpretation and the narrative genre is the most notable mediating element. The creative merit of this ethics proposal is the interpretation of ipseity, a pole of identity that is at the basis of the original ethical relation between oneself and another. Three exemplary moments in this path are: touch, the promise and conviction. 

scholarly journals Against "the European Notion of Man": Levinas, Freedom, and the Responsible Body

PhaenEx ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 76-99
Author(s):  
KATHY J. KILOH
Keyword(s):  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ethical Relation ◽  
Bodily Experience ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Racist Ideology ◽  
Early Essay ◽  
Clear Description

Emmanuel Levinas’ early essay “Reflections on the Philosophy of Hitlerism” provides us with a clear description what Levinas’ conception of subjectivity as a lived, bodily experience rejects: “the European notion of man” (7). This paper traces the argument Levinas presents in “Reflections on the Philosophy of Hitlerism,” providing links between this early essay and Levinas’ later, major works: Totality and Infinity and Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence. The political interrogation of liberalism at the heart of Levinas’ depiction of the subject as creaturely and his discussion of subjectivity as substitution is revealed by orienting the later works towards “Reflections on the Philosophy of Hitlerism.” Levinas’ description of the ethical relation between myself and all the others locates both my freedom and my responsibility to the other in the inseparable unity of body and spirit. As creatures, and as subjects in substitution, we experience our own freedom as dependent upon our responsibility for the others; unlike the subject of liberalism, the Levinasian subject cannot conform to the racist ideology promoted by the philosophy of Hiterlism without renouncing its own freedom.

scholarly journals El Otro No-Humano y el Coronavirus

Sincronía ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol XXV (79) ◽  
pp. 3-21
Author(s):  
Fabián de la Parra Rodríguez ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Responsibility ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Factory Farming ◽  
Ethical Relation ◽  
Scientific Experiments ◽  
Wet Market

The global Coronavirus pandemic originated out of a wet market in Wuhan, China. Thus, this virus is the product of the market conditions that lacked any sort of ethical considerations.Among the most ingrained dogmas in most human beings throughout history is the idea that mankind has non-human beings at their disposal to do with them whatever humanity’s will might dictate. The ethical relation is suspended during the interaction with animals and thus humans are allowed to torture, harm, imprison, and kill animals for scientific experiments, entertainment, or to satisfy hunger or a craving. Through the levinasian concept of transcendence, this article will propose Otherness as a category of Peter Singer’s utilitarian critique of factory farming. The current virus is proposed to be the result of a system that subsumes the non-human Other as matter to be manipulated and ignores any sort of ethical responsibility.

The affective labour of One Born Every Minute in its UK and US formats

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 164-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanya Horeck
Keyword(s):  
Reality Television ◽  
Ethical Relation ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Spectator ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines the relationship between the British and American versions of the hit reality television birthing show One Born Every Minute ( OBEM) in order to consider how the representation of different national childbirth practices invites a different kind of affective labour from the spectator. It argues that OBEM UK attempts to position the spectator in an ethical relation of care towards the subjects depicted. By contrast, on the US version, any such intimacy is forestalled by the use of distancing techniques, including an external voice-over and a heavy-handed dramatic shaping of the material through comedic devices.

Levinas on Ecology and Nature

2018 ◽  
pp. 768-788 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Boothroyd
Keyword(s):  
Dark Side ◽  
Ethical Relation ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Ethical Status ◽  
The Face

Most attempts to articulate the relevance of Levinas’s philosophy to the project of rethinking nature, ecology, and “the environment” in view of the perceived impending planetary crisis focus on his key ethical concepts such as the face-to-face, transcendence, absolute alterity, and Infinity. The implicit anthropocentrism of this dimension of his schema is often found to be a decisive impasse regarding the question of the ethical status of the nonhuman. This chapter explains why recurrent focus on the ethical relation and “the beyond” should be balanced by attention to his philosophy of existence; his empiricism; and his analyses of individuation, immanence, and Totality. Focussing on the “dark side” of the face-to-face and Levinas’s notion of the milieu will show the relevance of nature and ecology to the human-nonnhuman relation.

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