Levinas, feminism, holocaust, ecocide

Roger S. Gottlieb

pp. 365-376

in: Carol C. Gould, Robert S. Cohen (eds), Artifacts, representations and social practice, Berlin, Springer, 1994

Abstract

These remarks focus on what might be termed the transcendental but empirical conditions of ethics - ethics as indistinguishable and contrasting sets of presuppositions about what makes possible other than instrumental relations among human beings. The discussion is "transcendental" in a loose Kantian sense of asking how or why certain beliefs are possible, especially when this possibility is itself not directly addressed in the beliefs themselves. By "empirical" I mean concrete historical realities whose dark mysteries ethics are designed - consciously or unconsciously - to solve.

Cited authors

Levinas Emmanuel

Kant Immanuel