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Contemporary Readings of Responsibility

Author(s): Tatyana Batuleva
Subject(s): Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Metaphysics, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Contemporary Philosophy
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН
Keywords: ethics; metaphysics; responsibility; Being for the Other; togetherness; subject;

Summary/Abstract: The article offers an analysis, in parallel, of the philosophies of responsibility of Emmanuel Levinas and Hans Jonas, based on an overview of their most representative theses. These include, in the case of Levinas, ethics as a “first philosophy”; the hypostasis of the Self and Being for the Other as a path to the transcendent; responsibility and ethical transcendence; the transition from responsibility to justice. In the case of Jonas, responsibility and metaphysics as guardians of justifications; the role of knowledge and imagination; the specificity of the subject of responsibility, who continues and ensures the work of the “silent God”.

  • Issue Year: XXVIII/2019
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 28-43
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English, Bulgarian