Ethics and suffering since the holocaust: making ethics "first philosophy" in levinas, wiesel and rubenstein
Auteur :
Anderson, Ingrid
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9780367876340
Date de publication :
12 déc. 2019
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 cm
Poids :
360 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Emmanuel Levinas, Elie Wiesel and Richard Rubenstein respond to this problem by insisting that ethics must be Western thought's first concern. Unlike previous thinkers, they locate humanity's source of universal ethical obligation in the temporal world of experience, where human suffering, rather than metaphysics, provides the ground for ethical