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Solicitations

Poverties, Discourses and Limits
libri nigri, Band 76

von: Peter McCormick
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Verlag:	Bautz, Traugott
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	22.07.2020
ISBN/EAN:	9783959487627
Sprache:	englisch

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Titelbeschreibung

As the title of this companion set of essays in ethics to Modernities: Histories, Beliefs, and Values published at the same time, the expression “soliciting” is used more particularly than in ordinary everyday usage. For the most part “solicitation” here means a person or a group of persons seeking to obtain not just something generally. Specifically, “solicitation” here means persons’ seeking especially some fundamental ethical recognition in their evident destitution by entreating other persons both to recognize and to act upon their shared humanity. This more particular sense of “solicitation” corresponds to the now globalized awareness of very great numbers of persons today still continuing to suffer not just from poverty but from extreme poverty or destitution. Despite however the general decrease in the number of persons suffering from poverty, the number of those suffering from destitution has, as Essay Three documents in detail, largely remained stable. That is, the nature of the situations of very many persons persists in soliciting the moral and ethical effective concern of almost all. Responding not inappropriately to such solicitations in sufficient measure however would seem to require second thoughts about the nature of human beings and persons as fundamentally contingent beings. Such responses moreover would also seem to insist on distinguishing sharply between the moral and the ethical, between roughly what is mainly a matter of obligation and what is mainly a matter of value. Trying to understanding these matters less generally is the main point of the introductory and concluding essays about situations in Japan and the Sudan outside the more usual range of Western European reflection, together with the pairs of essays gathered in each of the three sections below.

The author:
Peter McCormick is Fürst Franz Josef and Fürstin Gina Emeritus Professor of Ethics at the International Academy of Philosophy in Liechtenstein. He is former Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa, and is a member of the Institut international de philosophie (Paris) and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Canada. In the libri nigri he published the books Blindly Seeing. Essays in Ethics: Discourses, Sayings, Sufferings and In Times Like These. Essays in Ethics: Situations, Resources, Issues.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Preface

Essay I: Orientations:
Community in the EU and in Japan

Introductions
An Elementary Contrast
Some Buddhist Backgrounds
Steps on a Shin Buddhist Path
Concluding Remarks: Renewing European Philosophical
Reflection on Community
Endnotes

Part One: Moral Solicitations

Essay II: Poor No More?
Problems with Sustainable Development

Orientations
Some Basic Terms and Distinctions
Development Goals and Eradicating Extreme Poverty
A Global Philosophy of Development
Difficulties with Development and Sustainability
An Economic and Philosophical Alternative?
An Eco-Ethical Perspective
By Way of Concluding
Endnotes

Essay III: Poverty and Anti-Poverty in France Today

Orientations
France and the Challenge of Eradicating Extreme Poverty
From Monetary Poverty to a Poverty of Destiny
The 2018 French Anti-Poverty Programme
A Fresh Start?
The French Anti-Poverty Programme and Its Presuppositions
By Way of Concluding
Endnotes

Part Two: Symbolic Discourses

Essay IV: Human Beings and Symbolic Behaviors

Orientations
Cardinal Terms
Material Histories
Linguistic Communications
Symbolic Behaviors
The Basic Property of Language's Triple Framework
Concluding Remarks
Endnotes

Essay V: Persons and Symbolic Discourse

Orientations
Symbols and Full Linguistic Capacity
Backgrounds
Language's Symbolic Character
Not Synthesis but Complementarity
Alternative Elements of Symbolic Discourse
The Nature of the Verbal Symbol
Envoi: Full Human Linguistic Capacities
Endnotes
Part Three: Ethical Limits

Essay VI: Ethics versus Moral Philosophy?

Orientations
"Ethics" vs "Moral Philosophy"?
Philosophical Ethics
"What Can [Moral] Philosophy Contribute to Ethics?"
Endnotes

Essay VII: Ethical Limits: Resting on Night

Renewing Philosophical Ethics Today
Interpreting A Poetry of Suffering
Interpretation and Rationality
The Force of the Negative
Metaphysical Space
Envoi: The Dark Borders of Ethics
Endnotes

Essay VIII: Ethics and Destitution

Orientations
Darfur Yesterday
Recollection
Deliverance
Sharing
Transferring
Realizing
Actualizing
Envoi
Endnotes