Founding community : a phenomenological-ethical inquiry / H. Peter Steeves.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steeves, H. Peter.

Series:

Phaenomenologica ; v. 143.

Phaenomenologica ; v. 143

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communities.

Philosophical anthropology.

Ethics.

Phenomenology.

Physical Description:

x, 154 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [1998]

Summary:

Phenomenology, in its traditional encounters with ethics, has commonly aimed at a more descriptive rather than prescriptive goal. The direction of this project, however, is both phenomenological and prescriptive as I attempt to provide a phenomenological foundation for communitarian ethical theory. I argue, following Husserl, that the Ego and the Other arise together in sense and thus we are committed to community in a foundational way. I am always and fundamentally constituted as a member of a community - as a Self among Others - and, given this, there are certain ethical implications. Namely, there is a communal Good of which my good is but a perspective; indeed, it is a perspective on a Good which encompasses the whole of the living world and not just humanity. Consequently, we are foundationally imbedded in a deep community and a deep communitarian ethic.

Notes:

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Indiana University.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [144]-151) and index.

ISBN:

0792347986

OCLC:

37533973