scholarly journals The Ethical Philosophic Dimension of Responsibility in Mitigating the COVID-19 Disaster in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (E) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Sigit Sapto Nugroho ◽  
Sarjiyati Sarjiyati ◽  
Anik Tri Haryani ◽  
Yuni Purwati ◽  
Arief Budiono ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Gradual Rise ◽  
Ethics Of Responsibility ◽  
Basic Facts

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is a global disaster and every country makes efforts to mitigate it. There needs to be a gradual rise of awareness on the ethics of responsibility to others in the form of a sense of solidarity and togetherness. Philosopher Emmanuel Levinas stated that the basic facts in his philosophy were other people. Therefore, his philosophy is the ethics of responsibility toward others. COVID-19 deserves to be a momentum to reflect on Levinas’ philosophy, by reaffirming responsibility toward others as an ethical fact in mitigating the COVID-19 disaster in Indonesia.

scholarly journals The Trace of the Untranslatable: Emmanuel Levinas and the Ethics of Translation

PhaenEx ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
DOROTA GLOWACKA
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
National Language ◽  
Linguistic Community ◽  
Fundamental Structure ◽  
Ethics Of Responsibility ◽  
Ethical Subjectivity

Looking at Holocaust testimonies, which in her view always involve some form of translation, the author seeks to develop an ethics of translation in the context of Levinas’ hyperbolic ethics of responsibility. Calling on Benjamin and Derrida to make explicit the precipitous task of the translator, she argues that the translator faces an ethical call or assignation that resembles the fundamental structure of Levinasian subjectivity. The author relates the paradoxes of translation in Holocaust testimony to Levinas’ silence on the problem of translation—puzzling if one considers Levinas’ focus on the ethical essence of language, his multilingualism, and the fact that he wrote his texts in a second language. She proposes that the trace of the philosopher’s displacement from his linguistic community can be discerned in his exilic conception of ethical subjectivity and in the testimonial impetus that animates his work. Thus, although Levinas’ Saying is posited as a translinguistic horizon that transcends the boundaries of a particular national language, it carries the remainder of the disavowed loss of the mother tongue.

Informed consent in the ethics of responsibility as stated by Emmanuel Levinas

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 443-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Jiménez Benito ◽  
Sonia Ester Rodríguez García
Keyword(s):  
Informed Consent ◽  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Ethics Of Responsibility

Individualisme et responsabilité selon Emmanuel Lévinas

Dialogue ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 469-503
Author(s):  
Étienne Haché ◽  
Matthieu Dubost
Keyword(s):  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ethics Of Responsibility ◽  
The Sacrifice ◽  
The Human Condition

ABSTRACTEmmanuel Lévinas is unquestionably the philosopher of ethics par excellence. One of the major themes of his thought, or rather the key to understanding his work—work that spans over many fields—is one's responsibility toward the Other. This article attempts to reconsider this determining aspect of his writings from the perspective of contemporary individualism. We argue that Lévinas's ethics of responsibility in no way obliterates “the share of the Ego in the eminence of the Other.” On the contrary, in his approach to otherness, he takes the Self entirely into account. In other words, our interpretation is that the commonly held view that Lévinas's philosophy consists of normative interpretation of the human condition leading to the sacrifice of the self is imputable to a misunderstanding caused by the polysemous and ambivalent character of the concept of individualism.

scholarly journals The (in)visibility of the faceless women: ethics and politics on the photographic images by Teresa Margolles

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 287-304
Author(s):  
Ângela Marques ◽  
Angie Biondi
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ethical Responsibility ◽  
Photographic Images ◽  
Ethics Of Responsibility ◽  
Art Works ◽  
Analytical Work ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Condition Of Women

In the opposite side of these moralizing pictures produced by traditional journalistic and photojournalistic narratives, the Mexican artist Teresa Margolles creates art works that disclose the vulnerable condition of women in the brutality of serial murders in order to connect individual suffering to a collective ethics of responsibility. In this text, the analytical work focuses on two of Margolles recent art works: La búsqueda (2014) and Pesquisas (2016). Taking the concepts of vulnerability and precariousness (Butler, 2006; Butler et al., 2016), we argue that the relation between violence and gender in Margolles’s art work is presented as resistance addressing a common as polemical public space (Rancière, 2004), and giving place to the possibility of an interpellation scene (Butler, 2015). We also consider that this photographic work, which articulates individual sufferings in a complex narrative capable to invite spectators to a careful and reflexive contemplation, give rise to a political and aesthetical gesture that can be related to a politics of the images as it is argued by Jacques Rancière (2010b) and Georges Didi-Huberman (2012). The political and aesthetical dynamics crossing Margolles photographs is also related to the ethical responsibility voiced by Emmanuel Levinas (1982) concept of face.

Global Responsibility and the Enhancement of Life

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-44
Author(s):  
William Schweiker
Keyword(s):  
Capabilities Approach ◽  
Moral Life ◽  
Global Ethics ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Moral Good ◽  
Global Responsibility ◽  
Ethics Of Responsibility ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Human Rights Discourse ◽  
Historical Life

This article advances a conception of global ethics in terms of the centrality of responsibility to the moral life and also the moral good of the enhancement of life. In contrast to some forms of global ethics, the article also seeks to warrant the use of religious sources in developing such an ethics. Specifically, the article seeks to demonstrate the greater adequacy of a global ethics of responsibility for the enhancement of life against rival conceptions developed in terms of Human Rights discourse or the so-called Capabilities Approach. The article ends with a conception of ‘conscience’ as the mode of human moral being and the experience of religious transcendence within the domains of human social and historical life. From this idea, conscience is specified a human right and capacity to determine the humane use of religious resources and also the norm for the rejection of inhumane expressions of religion within global ethics.

LÉVINAS Y CIORAN: UNA EXPERIENCIA DEL INSOMNIO

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Cristóbal Cea Bustamante
Keyword(s):  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Il Y A ◽  
Emil Cioran

<p>Desde el pensamiento ontológico de cautiverio que realizó Emmanuel Lévinas, es decir, desde su concepto de Il y a y su descripción de la experiencia más próxima al ser anónimo e impersonal, el insomnio, el presente artículo tiene el propósito de efectuar una conversación o un acercamiento con el pensamiento pesimista de Emil Cioran.<br />Todo para graficar el horror de esta patología y de la importancia del sueño o el inconsciente frente a ella, presentado este, el inconsciente, como una salida necesaria.</p>

Deus, Ética e Ontologia em Levinas

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
José Tadeu Batista Souza
Keyword(s):  
Emmanuel Levinas

O texto se propõe apresentar as preocupações de Emmanuel Levinas sobre a intrigante questão de Deus apresentadas no curso que ministrou em Paris, nos anos de 1975 e 1976. Tomamos com base o fragmento intitulado “Deus e a onto-teo-logia”, que corresponde a segunda parte da obra, Deus a Morte e o Tempo. O pano de fundo da problemática é a preocupação de Heidegger com a “constituição onto-teo-lógica da metafísica”. O nosso texto tem por objetivo apresentar a sua tese de que a ética se constitui em um modelo de racionalidade capaz de evidenciar a inteligibilidade da compreensão de Deus. Inicialmente, faremos esforço de expor a reflexão levinasiana sobre as contribuições de Heidegger ao colocar em tela de juízo o problema do ser. A seguir, apresentaremos a tese de que a “ética como filosofia primeira” possibilita uma modalidade de racionalidade que permite compreender a Deus para além da inteligibilidade do ser, da diferença ontológica, da identificação de Deus com o ser e, portanto, da onto-teo-logia. Por fim, concluiremos que as pretensões de compreensão de Deus a partir do modelo de razão grega resultam na sua redução a um dado objetivo e, portando, na eliminação de sua transcendência. A ética como relação com o outro concretiza a abertura para o divino que se eleva na sua transcendência infinita na justiça e no acolhimento aos outros homens. Assim, a relação com os outros se converte em ótica e na possibilidade do dizer humano à Deus.

Linguagem Simbólica e Racionalidade (profética): Um Retorno Filosófico à Religião à Luz de Ricoeur e Lévinas

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 90
Author(s):  
Elvis De Oliveira Mendes
Keyword(s):  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Paul Ricœur

É possível um retorno filosófico à religião?  A fim de tentar refletir acerca dessa difícil questão, o presente estudo pretende focar-se no confronto com os desafios do fenômeno religioso que se configura na contemporaneidade, tomando como ponto de referência o encontro entre as contribuições do pensamento filosófico de Paul Ricoeur – que recupera a textualidade da expe-riência religiosa e a fecundi-dade do pensamento ético-filosófico de Emmanuel Lévinas que, por sua vez, propõe o retorno à ética encontrada na tradição talmúdica, a fim de repensar o fenômeno religioso na atualidade.

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