The Complexity of Legal and Ethical Experience

1960 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 514
Author(s):  
Herbert Morris ◽  
F. S. C. Northrop
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Experience

scholarly journals The Ethical Experience of Nature: Aristotle and the Roots of Ecological Phenomenology

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dylan B. Van der Schyff
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Deep Ecology ◽  
Scientific Culture ◽  
Environmental Challenges ◽  
Moral Meaning ◽  
Ethical Experience ◽  
The Way

I demonstrate here how Aristotle's teleological conception of nature has been largely misunderstood in the scientific age and I consider what his view might offer us with regard to the environmental challenges we face in the 21st century. I suggest that in terms of coming to an ethical understanding of the creatures and things that constitute the ecosystem, Aristotle offers a welcome alternative to the rather instrumental conception of the natural world and low estimation of subjective experience our contemporary techno-scientific culture espouses. Among other things, I consider how his conception of orexis and eudaimonia (happiness or, as I prefer here, "the flourishing life") might be extended to include the eco-system itself, thus allowing us to better understand the moral meaning of nature. I conclude with a look at the way in which modern phenomenology re-addresses the fundamental Greek concern with ontology, meaning and human authenticity. I consider the ways in which phenomenology reasserts the value of direct human experience that was so important to Aristotle; and I consider how this view, and that of Deep ecology, may help us to experience nature - and all of Being for that matter - in a more authentic, meaningful and altogether ethical light.

scholarly journals The Limits of Transcendence

PhaenEx ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Richard Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Albert Camus ◽  
Philosophical Analysis ◽  
Ordinary Experience ◽  
The Real ◽  
Political Norms ◽  
Ethical Experience

A central ethical and political worry in Heidegger and Nietzsche is the philosophical irrelevance of everyday moral, epistemological and political norms, as well as of individual suffering and evil. In consequence they offer little to help us think about ethical experience. I argue that Albert Camus' analysis of moral and epistemic limits offers a more fruitful alternative. But this requires us to take ordinary experience as central to philosophical analysis, rather than simply viewing it as a clue to the real philosophical issues.

Before Infinitude: A Levinasian Response to Meillassoux’s Speculative Realism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee Braver
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
The Other ◽  
Speculative Realism ◽  
Human Thought ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Human Rationality ◽  
Ethical Experience

This chapter argues that like Meillassoux, Levinas opposes correlationism—a term encompassing both idealism and anti-realism in philosophy. However, Levinas’s attempt to overcome correlationism differs markedly from that of Meillassoux. Whereas Meillassoux argues that mathematizable, scientific discourse can determine facts about reality independent of human thought or awareness, Levinas appeals to an ethical experience of the other that remains correlated with awareness but transcend human rationality. Their attempts to overcome correlationism are thus reverse images of each other: whereas Meillassoux uses reason to transcend experience, Levinas appeals to experience to transcend reason. Taken together, these disparate approaches point to a more nuanced understanding of correlationism and its possible overcoming.

The ethical dimensions of life and analytic work through a Levinasian lens

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin McCoy Brooks
Keyword(s):  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Clinical Encounter ◽  
Relational Ethics ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Philosophical Hermeneutics ◽  
Subject Formation ◽  
Present Epoch ◽  
Analytic Work ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ethical Experience

This paper contextualizes Jung's method of amplification within the larger history of philosophical hermeneutics and most particularly within the relational ethics of the post-modern, post-phenomenological and post-Heideggarian philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. While finding the epistemological assumptions (foundationalism) of subject formation guiding Jung's interpretative method incompatible with the extra-ontology perspective of Levinas, this paper underscores the necessity for revitalizing our theory and practice by bringing back the unthought in Jung's corpus so that the truly ethical dimensions of life and analytic work are in alignment with our present epoch. Finally, one enigmatic analytic moment demonstrates how the radical Levinasian primacy of ethical experience in subject formation can emerge in a contemporary clinical encounter. The Levinasian sensibility will be shown to open up new perspectives that contrast with the formulaic ways in which we tend to understand the effects of counter-transference, transcendence, time and ethics.

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