Ethics as Responsibility : A Levinasian Interpretation / Jis Joseph Pettayil.

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the semantics of responsibility meaning of responsibility .... is responsibility as evolved in the history of philosophy....... 20 theories of responsibility ................. 30 typesof responsibility ..... 32 components of responsibility ......... 42 criteria for responsibility.......... 43 consequences of responsibility ..... 44 responsibility and freedom ...... 45 oneself As another: levinasian responsibility levinas` critique of western philosophy......... 48 the ethical perspectives of levinas .... 55 alienation and the reduction of the other ..... 6i phenomenology of the facethe ethical appeal the socio-political dimensions of responsibility the moral party or Two........ 81 fact of the third party ............ 83 institutional mediation of responsibility .... 87 the dark side of socio-political justice............ 89 the state and its transcendence ...... 92 small goodness........ 97 prophetic politics ..... 100 towards a global responsibility levinas and the other-than-human other .... 103 characteristics of previous ethics ..... 108 necessity of A world ethic ........ 114 an ethics of responsibility ........ i is rights of future generations ..... 121 ecological ethics ................ 124 human rights and common morality........ 129 A response to responsibility...135