CREATING ETHICAL SOCIETIES IN A CONCENTRATIONARY UNIVERSE: Simone Weil’s Phenomenological Ethics of Attention

This essay argues that Simone Weil’s writings suggest a phenomenological method of particular relevance to investigating ethical questions. It begins by presenting evidence that although Weil does not mention phenomenology explicitly, she thinks about ethics in a phenomenological manner. Subsequent...

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Main Author: Reed, Robert (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Dharmaram College 2020
In: Journal of Dharma
Year: 2020, Volume: 45, Issue: 4, Pages: 529-544
Further subjects:B Phenomenology
B Ethics
B Shoah
B concentrationary universe
B Levinas
B Arendt
B Simone Weil
B ethics of self-abdication
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