Ethical Relationality in Education: Martin Buber, Emmanuel Levinas, and Nel Noddings

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mordechai Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Martin Buber ◽  
Nel Noddings

Martin Buber and Emmanuel Levinas: An Ethical Query

2001 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurice Friedman ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Martin Buber

scholarly journals Self-transcendence and Eros: The human condition between desire and the infinite

2011 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cornel W. Du Toit
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Martin Buber ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Inner World ◽  
Self Transcendence ◽  
The Impact

This article treats self-transcendence – like all transcendence – as a fact of human life. Inter alia this means that the human mind perforce operates in terms of binary concepts such as finitude–infinity, inner world–outside world, self–other, desire–fulfilment, separation–union and the like. We find these concepts in most myths of origin. The concept of desire (Eros), combining unfulfilment and the infinite, particularly epitomises self-transcendence. Ralph Waldo Emerson is cited as a precursor of the mid-19th century transcendentalists, whose ideas are resurfacing in present-day secular spirituality. In this article, we examined desire in the Christian conception of the Fall as envisioned by the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber and by Hegel, who integrates mind and nature in his philosophy of Spirit. The works of Emmanuel Levinas and Paul Ricoeur are used as points of reference to help us understand self and other in a framework of self-transcendence. The impact of these ideas on a postmetaphysical epistemology was also explored. Affectivity is a neglected area in Western thought and displays the same infinitude as rationality. The article concluded with present-day strategies of self-construction in a techno-scientific consumer culture.

scholarly journals Los desafíos éticos del discurso político-educativo costarricense en el periodo 2006-2010, basados en el pensamiento dialógico de Martin Buber y el planteamiento de alteridad de Emmanuel Lévinas

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Esteban Josué Beltrán Ulate
Keyword(s):  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Martin Buber

El presente reporte de investigación muestra, de manera sintética, los resultados de una pesquisa presentada en el 2012 para optar por el grado de Licenciatura en Docencia en la Universidad Estatal a Distancia. La exploración de los desafíos éticos en el contexto educativo costarricense desde el planteamiento de Martin Buber y Emmanuel Lévinas es lo que pretende formular la presente investigación, procurando aportar al diálogo nacional el insumo de un elemento filosófico innovador, tenor de un impulso en futuros planteamientos educativos costarricenses que propicien un desarrollo humano cada vez más integral, donde la persona sea considerada en relación armónica con lo existente. Además, se presentan una serie de desafíos éticos que se desprenden de un análisis, en el cual confluyen diversas fuentes de información. La novedad radica en la confluencia de voces y la lectura ética de estos postulados desde el pensamiento de Martin Buber y Emmanuel Lévinas. La meta de la investigación postula un aporte al modelo educativo costarricense, así como a grupos gremiales de la educación y población en general, desde el enfoque de la filosofía del encuentro, desde el planteamiento del diálogo buberiano y el planteamiento de alteridad levinasiano, se puedan encontrar insumos necesarios para un replanteamiento -tanto desde el aspecto teórico como práctico- en el quehacer educativo nacional.

scholarly journals DIALOGO PRINCIPAS KAIP RELIGINIO PLIURALIZMO PAGRINDAS

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 45-57
Author(s):  
Lina Valantiejūtė
Keyword(s):  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Martin Buber ◽  
The Other ◽  
Religious Dialogue ◽  
Dual Relationship

Šiame straipsnyje siekiama parodyti, kad dialogas, suprantamas visų pirma kaip santykis su Kitu, leidžia ne tik esmingai (per)interpretuoti vyraujančią tarpreliginio dialogo kaip formalių sąveikos modelių tarp religijų sampratą, bet ir religinio pliuralizmo fenomeną atskleidžia kaip iš pagrindų dialogišką. Martino Buberio dialogo kaip santykio samprata bei Emmanuelio Levino įžvalgos ir dialogo, kaip pažintinio santykio, kritika leidžia ne tik parodyti pliuralizmo fenomeno vidinį paradoksą – neredukuojamą daugio ir įvairovės reikalavimą tuo pat metu siekiant tą daugį valdyti ir institucionalizuoti, – bet ir paaiškinti angažavimosi tarpreliginiam dialogui galimybę.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: dialogas, Buberis, Levinas, pliuralizmas, Kitas.THE PRINCIPLE OF THE DIALOGUE AS A BASIS FOR THE RELIGIOUS PLURALISMLina Valantiejūtė SummaryThe main aim of this article is to show that the dialogue, primarily understood as a relation with the Other, allows us not only to essentially (re)interpret the dominating streams of understanding of inter-religious dialogue as a formal interaction between the religions as systems, but it also enables us to see the phenomena of religious pluralism as fundamentally dialogical. The concept of a dialogue as a dual relationship by Martin Buber combined with the philosophical insights of Emmanuel Levinas and the criticism of the concept of the dialogue as a cognitive relation allows us to reveal the internal paradox of the phenomena of religious pluralism (a fundamental demand for a non reductive quantity and diversity as well as need to control it) and to explain a possibility of engagement in an inter-religious dialogue.Keywords: dialogue, Buber, Levinas, pluralism, the Other.

The Primacy of Interrelating: Practicing Ecological Psychology with Buber, Levinas, and Merleau-Ponty

2007 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Will Adams
Keyword(s):  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Ecological Psychology ◽  
Martin Buber ◽  
Natural Community ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
Human Species ◽  
Human Culture ◽  
What Matters

AbstractThis study explores the primacy of interrelating and its ecopsychological significance. Grounded in evidence from everyday experience, and in dialogue with the phenomenology of Martin Buber, Emmanuel Levinas, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, we discover that humans are inherently relational beings, not separate egoic subjects. When experienced intimately (not just conceptually), this realization may transform our (often pathological) interrelationship with the beings and presences in the community of nature. Specifically, interrelating is primary in three ways: 1) interrelating is always already here, transpiring from the beginning of the human species and human culture, from the beginning of every infant's life, and (most significantly) from the continuously arising beginning of every presencing moment; 2) the quality of our interrelating is truly what matters most, the most important expression of and facilitator of health, compassion, and justice for humankind and the rest of nature; and 3) interrelating is the ever-present path via which we discover/create and carry on our (inter)existence. Interrelating is an existential given—indeed we are our interrelating—yet we are summoned ethically to cultivate our way of interrelating so as to serve others and the non-human natural community. Thus interrelating is our essence, our calling, and our path.

scholarly journals Reconocimiento y alteridad en la Relación Trabajo Social y persona humana: una senda a partir de la antropología Filosófica

2017 ◽  
pp. 163
Author(s):  
Paola Zarate
Keyword(s):  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Martin Buber ◽  
Trabajo Social

Cuando el imperativo en torno al valor y dignidad de la persona humana comienza a ausentarse del discurso y de la praxis del Trabajo Social, por medio de la invisibilidad analítica y cotidiana que es inducida de forma inexorable por la posmodernidad, así emergen pensamientos en dirección opuesta desde los cuales esbozar los medios para construir una senda para el Trabajo Social. Las descripciones antropológicas de Martin Buber, en torno al Reconocimiento del Otro, la instauración de una relación dialógica Yo-Tú, así como las contribuciones de Emmanuel Lévinas, referentes al recibimiento del Rostro y nuestra consecuente Responsabilidad Ética, resultan ser iluminadoras para la reflexión y práctica del Trabajo Social. El artículo que se presenta a continuación, intenta ilustrar en tres partes un desafío para la profesión, abarcando algunas consideraciones antropológico-filosóficas sobre el fenómeno humano, a partir del pensamiento de ambos autores, para finalizar con un análisis conclusivo en torno al tema

scholarly journals Beyond the Threshold – Autobiography, Dialogic Interaction, and Conversion in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s and W. Abdullah Quilliam’s Poetry

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. SV57-SV74
Author(s):  
Martin Kindermann
Keyword(s):  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
British Literature ◽  
Martin Buber ◽  
The Self ◽  
Spiritual Journey ◽  
Gerard Manley Hopkins ◽  
Victorian Britain ◽  
Conversion Experience ◽  
God's Call ◽  
Dialogic Interaction

The intertwinement of poetic life writing and theological reflections has a long-standing history in British literature. This paper shows how two Victorian poets – Gerard Manley Hopkins and W. Abdullah Quilliam – use dialogic strategies to establish an autobiographic voice, which becomes an essential poetic means of the text. Through the representation of dialogic encounters, the poems establish an autobiographic mode of speaking, which is used to articulate individual conversion experiences and to negotiate conversion as an encounter with God. Based on the works of Martin Buber and Emmanuel Levinas, I will show how a dynamic understanding of text and conversion experience is essential to a reading that seeks to explore the poetic construction of Hopkins’s as well as Quilliam’s works. The representation of the dynamic encounter of the self and the Divine in the contact zone of the text provides a frame in which the authors locate themselves with regard to the religious majority of Victorian Britain. The texts link the spiritual journey of conversion to the self as being caught in the world, responding to God’s call as an answer to the world’s condition.

scholarly journals FILOSOFIA DO DIÁLOGO: APROXIMAÇÕES ENTRE HANNAH ARENDT E EMMANUEL LÉVINAS

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renato Somberg Pfeffer
Keyword(s):  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Martin Buber

As obras de Hannah Arendt e de Emmanuel Lévinas não podem ser dissociadas dos eventos catastróficos que marcaram o século XX, em especial, a Segunda Guerra mundial. Ambos vivenciaram a crise do da Civilização Europeia do século passado que havia mergulhado no self ao invés de valorizar a pluralidade. O objetivo do presente artigo é analisar natureza crítica da obra desses pensadores acerca do caráter ontológico e contemplativo da Filosofia Ocidental e como buscaram uma alternativa para o adoecimento do humanismo ocidental por meio de uma Filosofia do diálogo. Para o desenvolvimento desse artigo utilizou-se de uma metodologia hermenêutica e comparativa recorrendo a uma revisão bibliográfica dos pensadores supracitados e de outros que se dedicaram ao tema. A título de conclusão é possível inferir que a Filosofia ontológica que predominou desde o início dos tempos modernos no ocidente desencadeou uma racionalidade desmedida e autossuficiente que reflete e é refletida pela sociedade contemporânea alicerçada no isolamento, na competição, no consumismo e na indiferença. Sujeito apenas aos limites impostos pela própria consciência, o homem moderno se fechou em si mesmo sacrificando a transcendência. Criticando essa ética centrada no eu e indo além da Filosofia do diálogo de Martin Buber, Arendt e Lévinaspropõem uma perspectiva dialógica de pensar o si mesmo a partir e com o outro na busca de uma sociedade justa, assentada na pluralidade e na paz. Depositando uma fé profunda na capacidade humana de agir e realizar o milagre do renascimento, esses filósofos defendem que esse seria o sentido da própria existência.

Jewish Humanism in the Late Work of Geoffrey Hill

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 99-124
Author(s):  
Jesse Russell
Keyword(s):  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Martin Buber ◽  
World War ◽  
European Culture ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Positive Treatment ◽  
Geoffrey Hill ◽  
Second World ◽  
Apparent Influence

Abstract Throughout much of his career, Geoffrey Hill has been pilloried for his alleged conservativism as well as his positive treatment of Christianity in his poetry. A careful reading of his works, however, reveals a complex thinker who was attentive to the moral fallout of the Holocaust and the Second World War as he was a lover of England and European culture. Moreover, Hill’s writings reflect the apparent influence of a host of personalist, existentialist and what could also be called “humanist” twentieth century Jewish thinkers such as Martin Buber and Emmanuel Levinas. Throughout his poetry—especially his later work—Hill attempts (whether successfully or not) to fuse together this Jewish humanism with his own Christian and English voice.

scholarly journals RŪPESČIO ETIKA IR EMMANUELIS LEVINAS

Problemos ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 82 ◽  
pp. 112-125
Author(s):  
Renata Bikauskaitė
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Care Ethics ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Ethical Theories ◽  
Nel Noddings

Rūpesčio etika šiuolaikinės moralės filosofijos lauke yra gana naujas, vienalytiškumu bei griežtai apibrėžtu žodynu nepasižymintis darinys. Rūpesčio etika užima kritinę poziciją tradicinių etinių teorijų atžvilgiu, tačiau kai kurie jos atstovai, ieškodami tvirtesnio filosofinio pagrindo, siekia įtraukti ją į dorybių etikos teoriją. Šiame straipsnyje siūloma kitokia strategija: įtraukti rūpesčio etiką į Emmanuelio Levino filosofijos kontekstą. Analizuojant vienos žymiausių rūpesčio etikos atstovių Nel Noddings idėjas ir lyginant jas su Levino filosofija siekiama atskleisti abiejų etinių diskursų sankirtos taškus ir bendradarbiavimo galimybes. Straipsnyje teigiama, kad Levino etika suteikia Noddings natūralistinei rūpesčio etikai gilesnį normatyvinį pagrindą ir platesnį filosofinį kontekstą jos kontroversiškoms sąvokoms.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: rūpesčio etika, Noddings, Levinas.Ethics of Care and Emmanuel LevinasRenata BikauskaitėSummaryIn the context of the contemporary moral philosophy ethics of care appears to be quite a new discipline that lacks homogeneity and a well-defined moral vocabulary. Ethics of care is highly critical of the traditional ethical theories, though a few representatives, who are looking for well-established philosophical grounds, try to subsume it under the category of theory of virtue ethics. In this paper a different approach emerges which seeks to incorporate the ethics of care within the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. By analysing the ideas of Nel Noddings – one of the best known representatives of the ethics of care – and comparing them with the philosophy of Levinas an attempt is made to describe the overlaps between these two ethical discourses and explore the possibilities of their cooperation. This paper claims that Levinas’ ethics provides a deeper normative ground for the naturalistic care ethics of Nodings and a wider philosophical context for its controversial notions.Keywords: Ethics of care, Noddings, Levinas.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document