The Meaning of the Moral Imperative  

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Verhack ; Leuven, K.U.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Ethical Perspectives: Journal of the European Ethics Network vol. 8 no. 4 (Dec. 2001), page 232-253.
Topik: Moral Imperative

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My paper is intended as a personal reflection in the margin of an astonishing question raised by William Desmond: “Does my very moral dignity not cut me off from an ethics of agapeic service?” (Ethics and the Between, 366). This challenging question appears in a passage of sharp critique of Kant. We hear in it an echo of Desmond’s relentless effort of discernment and distinction between what he calls ‘erotic self-sovereignty’ and ‘agapeic love’ (or agapeic service) in his effort to go beyond Kant and Hegel. His ‘ethical’ concerns are not only of interest to students of metaphysics and those involved in the evaluation of German Idealism. His voice is also one that should be heard in the field of the reception of Levinas. For although Desmond is not directly addressing Levinas, his idea of ‘erotic self-sovereignty’ is close to the phenomenological position of intentionality that Levinas deems to be closed upon the ‘same’ and bound up with an ontology of totality. Desmond's agapeic love and reciprocity in the ‘middle’ can be seen as an attempt to go beyond the closure of the ‘same’. I would add that scholars who would appeal to Ricoeur in order to gain a critical distance from Levinas would derive great benefit from reading Desmond, for he pushes his questions beyond the barrier of the characteristic non-commitment of Ricoeur as soon as truly metaphysical questions erupt in his explanations of self-identity and ethics.

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