Overview
- Addresses the neglect of the study of supererogation within the continental philosophical tradition
- First to develop Levinasian politics by enlisting work from Philosophical or critical Complexity
- Brings the work of Peter Singer and Emmanuel Levinas into conversation
- Contributes to the ongoing efforts to create a common ethical terminology between the analytic and continental traditions within moral philosophy
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Levinasian reconceptualisation of supererogation
- Supererogatory actions vs supererogatory attitudes
- Moral iteration and moral aggregation
- Critique of Kantian and utilitarian supererogatory reductionism
- Moral incapacity which problematises autonomy
- Morally demanding infinite responsibility
- The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas
- Synecdoche for Levinas’s project
- Constructing a Levinasian normativity
- Levinasian normativity is supererogatory
- Moral demandingness and infinite responsibility
- Analytic moral philosophers
- Ethics as first philosophy
- Constructing a Levinasian normativity
- Proximity and moral demandingness
About this book
Supererogatory actions are praiseworthy actions that go ‘beyond duty’, and yet are not blameworthy when not performed. In responding to this paradox, moral philosophy either brackets or attempts a reductionism of supererogation. Supererogation is epitomised in the paradigmatic figures of the saint and hero. Yet, most would agree that emulating these figures is too morally demanding. We rightly ask: where does moral obligation end? Is it even possible, or desirable to demarcate such a boundary? Besides the important theoretical issues these questions raise, they also speak to practical ethical dilemmas in the contemporary milieu, as they concern the global wealthy’s responsibility to the poor and the challenges of development aid work.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Morally-Demanding Infinite Responsibility
Book Subtitle: The Supererogatory Attitude of Levinasian Normativity
Authors: Julio Andrade
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61630-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-61629-8Published: 17 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-61632-8Published: 18 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-61630-4Published: 16 March 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 204
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Moral Philosophy, Ethics, Continental Philosophy