The Person and the Common Life: Studies in a Husserlian Social EthicsSpringer Science & Business Media, 2013 M11 11 - 488 pages What follows attempts to synthesize Husserl's social ethics and to integrate the themes of this topic into his larger philosophical concerns. Chapter I proceeds with the hypothesis that Husser! believed that all of life could be examined and lived by the transcendental phenomenologist, and therefore action was not something which one did isolated from one's commitment to being philosophical within the noetic-noematic field. Therefore besides attempting to be clear about the meaning of the reduction it relates the reduction to ethical life. Chapter II shows that the agent, properly understood, i. e. , the person, is a moral theme, indeed, reflection on the person involves an ethical reduction which leads into the essentials of moral categoriality, the topic of Chapter IV. Chapter III mediates the transcendental ego, individual person, and the social matrix by showing how the common life comes about and what the constitutive processes and ingredients of this life are. It also shows how the foundations of this life are imbued with themes which adumbrate moral categoriality discussed in Chapter IV. The final Chapters, V and VI, articulate the communitarian ideal, "the godly person of a higher order," emergent in Chapters II, III and IV, in terms of social-political and theological specifications of what this "godly" life looks like. |
Contents
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The Primal Latent We as the Correlate of the Worlds Publicity | 212 |
The Primal Latent We as the Universal Frame and Telos of Particular Communities | 216 |
Some Preliminaries | 224 |
Kant Lewis et alii | 229 |
The Analogy of Love Continued | 239 |
The Common Life | 247 |
Solidarity and Responsibility in the Common Life | 252 |
The We of the Common Life as an Analogous Person | 255 |
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Notes | 44 |
THE ADVENTURE OF BEING A PERSON xi 1 5 10 14 17 | 45 |
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The Comingtobe of Persons through PositionTakings | 52 |
PositionTaking Acts as Constitutive and Revelatory IMe Acts | 62 |
Further Questions on the Egological Involvement in 2300 50 52 62 PositionTakings | 65 |
The Personal Core and the Emergence of an Ideal PositionTaking | 70 |
The Reasons of the Heart 70 | 76 |
An Outline of a Theory of Will | 85 |
Freedom within the WorldLife | 94 |
The Temporality of Willing | 99 |
Some Aspects of Moral Wakefulness | 102 |
Will Relevance and Wakefulness | 106 |
Will and Character | 110 |
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A Doctrinal Excursus | 115 |
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Some Problems of Being True to Oneself | 124 |
Risk and the Imperious Élan Vital | 131 |
Contextualism and Radical Choice | 137 |
Summary and Prospectus | 142 |
Notes | 146 |
THE COMMON Life and the FORMATION OF WE 1 Introduction | 155 |
Transcendental and NonTranscendental References of I | 156 |
A Husserlian Meditation on Tugendhats Critique of a TransMundane I | 160 |
Husserls Founding of the Prior SpaceTime Context | 165 |
The Common World and the Occasionals | 173 |
Preliminaries on the Knowledge of Other Minds | 175 |
The Other is the First Personal I | 179 |
Lipps Position | 180 |
Plessner Harlan and Scheler | 181 |
Methodological Significance of the Introduction of Instinct | 184 |
General Features of a Transcendental Phenomenological Theory of Instinct | 186 |
A Likely Story about the Original Presence of the Other | 190 |
The Face and Bodily Contact as Foundational Themes | 193 |
Analogy Between Retention and the Original Instinctual Presence of the Other | 197 |
The Originating Gracious Presence of the Other | 198 |
The Actualization of I | 206 |
The Emergence of the Primal Latent We | 209 |
We as an Analogous I is not Absolute Spirit | 264 |
The Problem of the SelfConsciousness of the Personality of a Higher Order | 269 |
Notes | 275 |
THE ABSOLUTE OUGHT AND THE GODLY PERSON OF A HIGHER ORDER 1 Introduction | 284 |
A Theory of Conscience | 285 |
A Theory of Vocation | 288 |
Excursus on Hauerwas and MacIntyre | 289 |
A Theory of Vocation Continued | 294 |
Categorical Features of the Absolute Ought | 296 |
Preliminary Considerations | 300 |
Husserl and Sokolowski | 303 |
Toward a Synthesis | 309 |
Husserls Progressivism and Maximalism | 312 |
Categorial Features of the Absolute Ought Continued | 320 |
The Divine Calling as the Truth of Will | 324 |
The Call to be Godly Members of a Divine Person of a Higher Order | 330 |
Some Historical Parallels | 339 |
The Absolute Ought as Universal Ethical Love | 341 |
Nagel and Sellars | 345 |
Ethical Monologism | 350 |
The Problem of the Hiddenness of the Divine Ideal of Communalization | 359 |
Summary | 363 |
Notes | 364 |
THE POLITical Life of THE GODLY PERSON OF A HIGHER ORDER 1 The Prepolitical Communities | 370 |
A Sketch of the Essence of the Polis | 373 |
The Community of the State | 384 |
The Foundation of the Emergence of the Statist Perspective | 388 |
The Inauthenticity and Despotism of the Statist Mode of BeingintheWorld | 390 |
Charles Taylors Hegel | 396 |
Fichte on the State | 397 |
The Qualitative Issue of Size | 404 |
Regionalism and Decentralization | 412 |
THE COMMON Good of the Common Life OF THE GODLY | 420 |
Contrast with Christological Metaphysics | 429 |
Summary | 437 |
First and Second Senses of the Common Good | 444 |
The Common Goods Which are the Stuff and Grace of the Common | 452 |
The Commonly Necessary Material Goods and Conditions | 458 |
Bibliography | 468 |
Index | 476 |
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The Person and the Common Life: Studies in a Husserlian Social Ethics James Hart Limited preview - 1992 |
The Person and the Common Life: Studies in a Husserlian Social Ethics J.G. Hart No preview available - 2010 |
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