Morally-demanding infinite responsibility : the supererogatory attitude of Levinasian normativity

Morally-demanding infinite responsibility : the supererogatory attitude of Levinasian normativity / J. Andrade.

This book presents a conceptual mapping of supererogation in the analytic moral philosophical tradition. It first asks whether supererogation can be conceptualised in the absence of obligation or duty and then makes the case that it can be. It does so by enlisting the resources of the continental tr...

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Main Author: Andrade, J. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, [2021]
Subjects:
Supererogation.
Ethics.
Continental philosophy.
ethics (philosophy)
Supererogation
Continental philosophy
Ethics
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • I. Mapping supererogation
  • II. Assimilating supererogation
  • III. Proximity and moral demandingness
  • IV. Impartialism, autonomy and supererogation
  • V. Morally demanding infinite responsibility: an analytic-continental segue
  • VI. Ethics as first philosophy
  • VII. Constructing a Levinasian normativity (without norms)
  • VIII. Levinasian normativity is supererogatory
  • IX. The analytic/continental divide redux: continuities and departures
  • Conclusion.

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