Ethics and Self-Knowledge Respect for Self-Interpreting Agents
This book explores the theoretical basis of our ethical obligations to others as self-knowing beings - this task being envisaged as an essential supplement to a traditional ethic of respect for persons. Authoritative knowledge of others brings with it cer
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LIBRARY OF ETHICS AND APPLIED PHILOSOPHY VOLUME 26
Editor in Chief Marcus Düwell, Utrecht University, Utrecht, NL
Editorial Board Deryck Beyleveld, Durham University, Durham, U.K. David Copp, University of Florida, USA Nancy Fraser, New School for Social Research, New York, USA Martin van Hees, Groningen University, Netherlands Thomas Hill, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA Samuel Kerstein, University of Maryland, College Park Will Kymlicka, Queens University, Ontario, Canada Philippe Van Parijs, Louvaine-la-Neuve (Belgium) en Harvard, USA Qui Renzong, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Peter Schaber, Ethikzentrum, University of Zürich, Switzerland Thomas Schmidt, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
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ETHICS AND SELF-KNOWLEDGE Respect for Self-Interpreting Agents
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PETER LUCAS University of Central Lancashire, UK
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Dr. Peter Lucas School of Education and Social Sciences University of Central Lancashire Preston Lancashire PR1 2HE UK [email protected]
ISSN 1387-6678 ISBN 978-94-007-1559-2 e-ISBN 978-94-007-1560-8 DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-1560-8 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011928903 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
The Other by rising up confers on the for-itself a being-in-itself-in-the-midst-of-the-world as a thing among things. This petrifaction in in-itself by the Other’s look is the profound meaning of the myth of Medusa Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness It is not always from pride that a mistress refuses to yield to the caprices of her lover: she would fain have to do with an adult who is living out a real moment of his life, and not with a little boy telling himself stories Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
For Michael Hammond – who showed me how, and why
Acknowledgments
All philosophy begins in dialogue; and in the case of this book, which has had a lengthy gestation, the relevant dialogues have been many and varied. It would not be possible to mention by name all those who have contributed, in one way or another. Nevertheless a few names stand out. Firstly, the staff of Lancaster University Philosophy Department, with whom I took my first steps in the discipline. In particular: Michael Hammond, Jane Howarth and Alan Holland. It was their teaching, and their example, that first enabled me to think of myself as someone who might one day write a book like this. An equally long-standing debt is to David Littlewood, who in endless exhilarating conversatio
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