The Origins Of Responsibility

Author : François Raffoul
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253221735

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The Origins of Responsibility by François Raffoul Pdf

François Raffoul approaches the concept of responsibility in a manner that is distinct from its traditional interpretation as accountability of the willful subject. Exploring responsibility in the works of Nietzsche, Sartre, Levinas, Heidegger, and Derrida, Raffoul identifies decisive moments in the development of the concept, retrieves its origins, and explores new reflections on it. For Raffoul, responsibility is less about a sovereign subject establishing a sphere of power and control than about exposure to an event that does not come from us and yet calls to us. These original and thoughtful investigations of the post-metaphysical senses of responsibility chart new directions for ethics in the continental tradition.

Author : François Raffoul
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253004222

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The Origins of Responsibility by François Raffoul Pdf

François Raffoul approaches the concept of responsibility in a manner that is distinct from its traditional interpretation as accountability of the willful subject. Exploring responsibility in the works of Nietzsche, Sartre, Levinas, Heidegger, and Derrida, Raffoul identifies decisive moments in the development of the concept, retrieves its origins, and explores new reflections on it. For Raffoul, responsibility is less about a sovereign subject establishing a sphere of power and control than about exposure to an event that does not come from us and yet calls to us. These original and thoughtful investigations of the post-metaphysical senses of responsibility chart new directions for ethics in the continental tradition.

Author : Ramesh Thakur
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351016773

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Reviewing the Responsibility to Protect by Ramesh Thakur Pdf

This volume is a collection of some of the key essays by Ramesh Thakur on the origins, implementation and future prospects of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) norm. The book offers a comprehensive yet accessible review of the origins, evolution, advances and shortcomings of the R2P principle. A literature review is followed by an overview of the background, meaning and development of R2P. With a focus on the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS), Part I analyses the features of, and explains the factors that make for success and failure of commission diplomacy. Part II discusses the controversies surrounding efforts to implement R2P, including the role and importance of emerging powers. Part III describes the remaining protection gaps and explains why R2P will remain relevant because it is essentially demand driven. Finally, the book concludes with a look back at the origins of R2P and looks ahead to possible future directions. This book will be essential for students of the Responsibility to Protect, and of much interest to students of global governance, human rights, international law and international relations.

Author : Hannah Arendt
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780307544056

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Responsibility and Judgment by Hannah Arendt Pdf

Each of the books that Hannah Arendt published in her lifetime was unique, and to this day each continues to provoke fresh thought and interpretations. This was never more true than for Eichmann in Jerusalem, her account of the trial of Adolf Eichmann, where she first used the phrase “the banality of evil.” Her consternation over how a man who was neither a monster nor a demon could nevertheless be an agent of the most extreme evil evoked derision, outrage, and misunderstanding. The firestorm of controversy prompted Arendt to readdress fundamental questions and concerns about the nature of evil and the making of moral choices. Responsibility and Judgment gathers together unpublished writings from the last decade of Arendt’s life, as she struggled to explicate the meaning of Eichmann in Jerusalem. At the heart of this book is a profound ethical investigation, “Some Questions of Moral Philosophy”; in it Arendt confronts the inadequacy of traditional moral “truths” as standards to judge what we are capable of doing, and she examines anew our ability to distinguish good from evil and right from wrong. We see how Arendt comes to understand that alongside the radical evil she had addressed in earlier analyses of totalitarianism, there exists a more pernicious evil, independent of political ideology, whose execution is limitless when the perpetrator feels no remorse and can forget his acts as soon as they are committed. Responsibility and Judgment is an essential work for understanding Arendt’s conception of morality; it is also an indispensable investigation into some of the most troubling and important issues of our time.

Author : Morten Bergsmo,CHEAH Wui Ling,SONG Tianying,YI Ping
Publisher : Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher
Page : 845 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9788283480146

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Historical Origins of International Criminal Law by Morten Bergsmo,CHEAH Wui Ling,SONG Tianying,YI Ping Pdf

Author : A. Bezgodov,K. Barezhev
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781543494181

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The Origins of Planetary Ethics in the Philosophy of Russian Cosmism by A. Bezgodov,K. Barezhev Pdf

In this book, Aleksandr V. Bezgodov and Konstantin V. Barezhev formulate planetary ethics—the most important part of the philosophy of the Planetary Project. Planetary ethics represent the moral basis and value code for building a biocompatible, harmonious, and manageable civilization. They analyze the moral and ethical views of those Russian cosmists who belonged to the natural science branch of this unique philosophical, scientific, and cultural phenomenon. Looking at the world through the prism of a planetary-cosmic consciousness, cosmists developed a system of biocentric and humanistic values. Russian cosmism is a spiritual rebellion of life against chaos, death, and limitation. A combination of science, philosophy, poetry, and a certain utopianism extended on a universal scale makes Russian cosmism a prologue to the modern nonclassical, science-based worldview that emphasizes synergy and globalism. Back in the late nineteenth to early twentieth century, cosmists focused on a united humanity and the principles of a close relationship between man and the universe. This monograph lays the groundwork for the planetary ethics that originated in the philosophy of Russian cosmism. The monograph continues the series of books of the Planetary Project, Planetary Project: From Sustainable Development to Managed Harmony and Planetary Rent as an Instrument for Solving Global Problems.

Author : Annika Mombauer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317875840

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The Origins of the First World War by Annika Mombauer Pdf

The seminal event of the 20th century, the origins of the First World War have always been difficult to establish and have aroused deep controversy. Annika Mombauer tracks the impassioned debates as they developed at critical points through the twentieth century. The book focuses on the controversy itself, rather than the specific events leading up to the war. Emotive and emotional from the very beginning of the conflict, the debate and the passions aroused in response to such issues as the ‘war-guilt paragraph’ of the treaty of Versailles, are set in the context of the times in which they were proposed. Similarly, the argument has been fuelled by concerns over the sacrifices that were made and the casualities that were suffered. Were they really justified?

Author : Steven Seidman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520049861

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Liberalism and the Origins of European Social Theory by Steven Seidman Pdf

Author : James S. Hans
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1991-09-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438405711

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The Origins of the Gods by James S. Hans Pdf

Based on Nietzsche's critique of religion and culture, and engaging the contemporary offshoots of that critique, this book assesses the myths of origins that have been used to articulate the fundamental attitude toward the relationship between shame and beauty. In reconsidering some of the myths upon which the West is based, from Hesiod and Greek mythology to Plato and the Bible, Hans pursues the ways in which we have habitually separated shame and beauty in order to create the grounds that would provide us with the authority for our lives we think we need. By juxtaposing Socrates' repression of violence in The Republic and Nietzsche's conception of the overman, the author revises the network of relations that are associated with the religious, the aesthetic, and the political, asserting that the religious derives from the aesthetic rather than the other way around, and establishing a necessary connection between the political and the aesthetic. Hans aims to raise yet again the questions embodied in Nietzsche's attempt to prompt humans to face the true status of their actions in the world: are we finally able to address our shame without immediately projecting it onto another or repressing it? If so, what changes might we see in the psychological, social, and political worlds we would create out of such an acknowledgment? What value is to be found in accepting the uneasy relationship between shame and beauty upon which our lives rest? While The Origins of the Gods provides no definitive answers to such questions simply because none are possible, it makes use of such queries in order to reassert the great importance of Nietzsche's affirmation of the value of the world as it is. It argues that this affirmation has something crucial to offer if we are willing to forgo an authorized existence and confront the beauty and shame from which our lives are inevitably constituted.

Author : Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401140584

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The Origins of Life by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka Pdf

Understanding life through its origins reveals the groundwork underlying the differentiations of its autonomous generative matrixes. Following the primogenital matrix of generation, the three generative matrixes of the specifically human sense of life establish humanness within the creative human condition as the existential sphere of sharing-in-life.

Author : Wendy Doniger
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1980-10-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520040988

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The Origins of Evil in Hindu Mythology by Wendy Doniger Pdf

Presenting a subject rarely studied, the author shows there is a history of ideas about evil in Hinduism.

Author : Moshe Gold,Sandor Goodhart,Kent Lehnhof
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781612495422

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Of Levinas and Shakespeare by Moshe Gold,Sandor Goodhart,Kent Lehnhof Pdf

Scholars have used Levinas as a lens through which to view many authors and texts, fields of endeavor, and works of art. Yet no book-length work or dedicated volume has brought this thoughtful lens to bear in a sustained discussion of the works of Shakespeare. It should not surprise anyone that Levinas identified his own thinking as Shakespearean. "The play's the thing" for both, or put differently, the observation of intersubjectivity is. What may surprise and indeed delight all learned readers is to consider what we might yet gain from considering each in light of the other. Comprising leading scholars in philosophy and literature, Of Levinas and Shakespeare: "To See Another Thus" is the first book-length work to treat both great thinkers. Lear, Hamlet, and Macbeth dominate the discussion; however, essays also address Cymbeline, The Merchant of Venice, and even poetry, such as Venus and Adonis. Volume editors planned and contributors deliver a thorough treatment from multiple perspectives, yet none intends this volume to be the last word on the subject; rather, they would have it be a provocation to further discussion, an enticement for richer enjoyment, and an invitation for deeper contemplation of Levinas and Shakespeare.

Author : William Horosz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0806112816

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The Crisis of Responsibility by William Horosz Pdf

Author : Mark Busser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429802522

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Ethics, Obligation, and the Responsibility to Protect by Mark Busser Pdf

This book critically examines arguments about ‘obligation’ and ‘responsibility’ in relation to the responsibility to protect (R2P) and situates it within wider moral argumentation concerning the role of culpability, answerability, and human rights in international affairs. It discusses the ways in which R2P has been imagined and contested in order to illuminate some possible trajectories through which its potential might be actualized. Crucial to the development of a more ‘responsible’ world politics will be the recognition that formal inter-state ‘regimes’ of responsibility will need to be embedded within wider social ‘fields’ of responsibility constituted by the participation of attentive and mobilized global citizens ready to hold elites accountable. This book provides novel ideas to better understand the role of rhetoric and moral argumentation in international relations. Much of the novel contribution comes in the form of its conceptual breakdown of the ambiguous concept of ‘responsibility,' which often clouds clear understanding not only in international relations, but also in the specific debates over the ethics and practice of the international responsibility to protect regime. This book will be of much interest to students of the responsibility to protect, human rights, global governance, and international relations in general.

Author : Alex J. Bellamy,Edward C. Luck
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781509512478

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The Responsibility to Protect by Alex J. Bellamy,Edward C. Luck Pdf

In 2005, the international community made a landmark commitment to prevent mass atrocities by unanimously adopting the UN’s “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) principle. As often as not, however, R2P has failed to translate into decisive action. Why does this gap persist between the world’s normative pledges to R2P and its ability to make it a daily lived reality? In this new book, leading global authorities on humanitarian protection Alex Bellamy and Edward Luck offer a probing and in-depth response to this fundamental question, calling for a more comprehensive approach to the practice of R2P – one that moves beyond states and the UN to include the full range of actors that play a role in protecting vulnerable populations. Drawing on cases from the Middle East to sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, they examine the forces and conditions that produce atrocity crimes and the challenge of responding to them quickly and effectively. Ultimately, they advocate both for emergency policies to temporarily stop carnage and for policies leading to sustainable change within societies and governments. Only by introducing these additional elements to the R2P toolkit will the failures associated with humanitarian crises like Syria and Libya become a thing of the past.