Ethics: new trajectories in law
"This book examines ethics at the intersection of law and justice. If law and justice are concerned with collectively establishing the general terms on which the plurality called "we" share the earth as social beings, then ethics concerns the individual Self's particular moral re...
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2021
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| Schriftenreihe: | New trajectories in law
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| Zusammenfassung: | "This book examines ethics at the intersection of law and justice. If law and justice are concerned with collectively establishing the general terms on which the plurality called "we" share the earth as social beings, then ethics concerns the individual Self's particular moral relationship with the Other. Law, the acknowledged offspring of politics, represents the kind of might that most people accept as legitimate, at least most of the time. Justice, on the other hand, is supposed to vigilantly stand guard over law: to protect us against its biases and excesses, or, at the very least, to rise up and reproach the law whenever it permits or encourages injustice. But what if the belief that a particular legally-authorized state of affairs is "just" - a common enough feeling, especially amongst the privileged - or even "unjust" and in need of correction, were itself in need of a vigilant guardian? This book argues that ethics can and should stand guard over whatever image of justice and/or just law one happens to believe in. The book thus attempts to steer a perilous course between two looming moral hazards: ethics interpreted as the rational production of ethically correct behavior (as in Kant) and ethics interpreted as the spontaneous eruption of pre-rational compassion for the suffering of the Other, come what may (as in Levinas). In the end, the book characterizes ethical life in the law as the more-or-less constant experience of the paradoxical nature of this choice - a feeling of inescapable personal responsibility for the fate of the Other. Based on the author's well-established expertise in the area, this book will appeal to students, scholars and others with interests in legal theory and moral and political philosophy"-- |
| Beschreibung: | viii, 118 Seiten Illustrationen 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780367356545 |
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| adam_text | Contents List offigures Acknowledgments 1 Towards an ethics writ large On ethics writ small 1 Introducing the possibility of an ethics writ large 5 Telling and urging 10 In the beginning was the deed 14 Beginning at the ending 18 2 From ethos to ethics From custom to character to duty 23 The codependency ofIs and Ought as an elective affinity 27 The untranslatability ofmetaphysical statements in ethics 35 Three cases: compassionless reason, reasonable compassion, and reason versus compassion 40 3 The burden of caring The leading question 44 Towards a phenomenological interpretation of reason and compassion in ethics 46 “Gniimigeb eht ta nigeb ” - George Oppen 52 Responsibility versus presponsibility: herein of Levinas 57 The politics of ethics writ large 61
viii Contents 4 Ethical doubts about justice The hope for justice 65 The force of law 69 Justice ’s guardianship over law 73 The shabbiness oflaw compared to the wonderfulness ofjustice 76 The problem offidelity to law in a relativistic age 79 The customary agreeableness ofjustice 85 The suspicious wordiness ofreason 90 5 A concluding anecdote about the difference between ambiguity and treachery “But this is a pipe”: a law professor ’s anecdote 95 The indeterminacy thesis 97 Deconstruction 98 The treachery of ambiguity versus the ambiguity of treachery 100 The ethics ofself-treachery 104 References Index 65 95 106 115
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Contents List offigures Acknowledgments 1 Towards an ethics writ large On ethics writ small 1 Introducing the possibility of an ethics writ large 5 Telling and urging 10 In the beginning was the deed 14 Beginning at the ending 18 2 From ethos to ethics From custom to character to duty 23 The codependency ofIs and Ought as an elective affinity 27 The untranslatability ofmetaphysical statements in ethics 35 Three cases: compassionless reason, reasonable compassion, and reason versus compassion 40 3 The burden of caring The leading question 44 Towards a phenomenological interpretation of reason and compassion in ethics 46 “Gniimigeb eht ta nigeb ” - George Oppen 52 Responsibility versus presponsibility: herein of Levinas 57 The politics of ethics writ large 61
viii Contents 4 Ethical doubts about justice The hope for justice 65 The force of law 69 Justice ’s guardianship over law 73 The shabbiness oflaw compared to the wonderfulness ofjustice 76 The problem offidelity to law in a relativistic age 79 The customary agreeableness ofjustice 85 The suspicious wordiness ofreason 90 5 A concluding anecdote about the difference between ambiguity and treachery “But this is a pipe”: a law professor ’s anecdote 95 The indeterminacy thesis 97 Deconstruction 98 The treachery of ambiguity versus the ambiguity of treachery 100 The ethics ofself-treachery 104 References Index 65 95 106 115 |
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