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Phenomenology, in its traditional encounters with ethics, has commonly aimed at a more descriptive rather than prescriptive goal. The direction of this project, however, is both phenomenological and prescriptive as I attempt to provide a phenomenological foundation for communitarian ethical theory. I argue, following Husserl, that the Ego and the Other arise together in sense and thus we are committed to community in a foundational way. I am always and fundamentally constituted as a member of a community - as a Self among Others - and, given this, there are certain ethical implications. Namely, there is a communal Good of which my good is but a perspective; indeed, it is a perspective on a Good which encompasses the whole of the living world and not just humanity. Consequently, we are foundationally imbedded in a deep community and a deep communitarian ethic.
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Morality and Phenomenology
Pages 1-8
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The Ego and the Other in a Pairing Relation
Pages 9-30
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Instinct and the Presence of the Other
Pages 31-53
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Moral Categoriality & Moral Being
Pages 54-77
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Phenomenological Communitarianism
Pages 78-120
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Founding Community
- Book Subtitle
- A Phenomenological-Ethical Inquiry
- Authors
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- H.P. Steeves
- Series Title
- Phaenomenologica
- Series Volume
- 143
- Copyright
- 1998
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
- eBook ISBN
- 978-94-011-5182-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-94-011-5182-5
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-7923-4798-9
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-94-010-6180-3
- Series ISSN
- 0079-1350
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 161
- Topics
