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Jules Simon
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- Phil 2306 (PHIL2306)
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- University Of Texas - El Paso
Jules Simon- phenomenological ethics
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11/12/24, 4:41 PM OneNoteJules Simon
Thursday, December 5, 2019 3:27 PM
1956-present
Philosophy oriented to ethics: normative and applied ethics, phenomenological ethics,
sustainability ethics
Other work in philosophy: phenomenology, philosophy of history
Arts and Responsibility: a phenomenology
Making Ethical Sense of Useless Suffering with Levinas
Levinas counters the view n which peace is obly achievable as a dialectical resolution of the
competing asertions of self-satisfying egoist superiorities
In contrast to priveliging relaatioships of domination, he offers a phenomenology of the
unrelenting obsession of responsibility for the other
We are always going to be in conflict with each other
Utilitarian instrumentalist ethics have come to dominate our decsion making + how is it useful?
Quanfy it?
It can be used in bad ways
A "double bind" emeerges when the general good is so defined as to entail eithe
The phenomenon of the suffering of another cannot be systematically justified, teleologically
rationalixe, or categorically classified
The frenchworld "mal" means pain and evil.
We're faced with suffering and how to we make sense of it?
Phenomenology
Learning to become sensitive to the vulnerabilities expressed by others in their gestures or in
the verbal inflictions of their utterances is another way of expressing that traces of the saying of
another's voice are forgotten or ignored and trouble the said
Becoming sensitive to the vulnerabilities of others
The demand is a demand for personal, intimate, and responsible invilvement in the life of
another
If I merely point out "that one suffering over there" does not leviate aything replicates
stereotyping,
Using suffering for my own personal agendas.
Apophsis
Wht ocunts in the non-freedom of suffering is the concreteness of the not, looming as an evil
more negaative than any apophati cnot (mere omission or indifference)
This negativiyty of evil is probably the source or kernel of all apophatic negation
Of not being able to show or inicate
Of not even being able to be able
Suffering comes from the non-freedom of moving.
Absurdity
In that all evil realtes back to suffering, this not of vil is a negativity that extends as far as
the realm of the unmeaning
Intentional infliciton of torture, suffering, and pain as well as casual indifference
Our own attempts at forming sovereign or autonomous political communities have been
extraordin
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