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Phenomenology and ethics: from value theory to an ethics of responsibility

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DeWit, David J.
DuBois, David
Larose, Simon
Lipman, Ellen L.
Spencer, Renee

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2014

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English

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There seems to be a shift in phenomenology in the 20th century from an ethics based on value theory to an ethics based on responsibility. This essay attempts to show the path marks of this transition. It begins with the historical development that led Husserl to address the question of ethical objectivity in terms of value theory, with a focus on Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche. It then explains Husserl’s phenomenology of ethics as grounded in value theory, and takes into account Heidegger’s objections to it. Finally, it considers Sartre as a transitional fi gure between value theory and an ethics of responsibility and attempts to show in what sense, if at all, Levinas’ phenomenology of ethics could be an absolute break with a phenomenological ethics based on values.

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Studia Phaenomenologica

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Philosophy Documentation Center

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Phenomenology, Ethics

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