| The Person and the Common Life: Studies in a Husserlian Social Ethics 1992 Edition Contributor(s): Hart, J. G. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0792317246 ISBN-13: 9780792317241 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $208.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1992 Annotation: This Husserl-based social ethics claims that the properly philosophical life -- i.e. one lived within the noetic-noematic field -- is not cut off from action. Indeed, the ethical and political dimensions of the person are disclosed through various reductions. At the passive-synthetic level as well as at the higher founded levels of personal constitution a basic sense of will emerges, the telos of which is a godly intersubjective self-ideal. This truth of will' is inseparably an ought' and an is' involving moral categoriality as a way of letting the good of others be part of one's own. Both moral categoriality and the polis actuate the latent first-person plural dative of manifestation which emerges with a common world. Thereby they actuate also senses of the common life which can develop to community as a higher-order person. This leads to a eutopian anti-statist theory of the polis and common good which has affinity with some communitarian-anarchist and Green' views. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Phenomenology - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy |
| Dewey: 170.92 |
| LCCN: 92011464 |
| Series: Phaenomenologica |
| Physical Information: 1.13" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.95 lbs) 488 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
