Responsibility - Presentation Slides
Responsibility - Presentation Slides
ch. 9
Principles of Christian Continental
Ethics Ethics
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Responsibility
Fundamental
Responsibility as “being able to
concepts respond,” being response-able.
of the traditional
account of Responsibility as capacity for agency
predicated on the idea of freedom.
responsibility
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Agency:
Freedom, volition,
imagination, decision,
projection, orientation,
discernment,…
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Responsibility
One speaks of “being responsible for
one’s actions,” an expression which
mobilizes the sense of accountability
as authorship over one’s actions and
over oneself (“being responsible for
oneself ”). [Raffoul]
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Responsibility:
1. Self
2. Others
3. God
1. Responsibility
to Self
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1844-1900
Master/Slave Morality
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Morality = alienation
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Key Ideas
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2. Responsibility
to Others
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“People are all around us, “So the shape of our living is largely
but they are also inside us. created by our relationships with
Each of us has a people… To ask ‘Who am I?’ leads
‘community of the heart’ straight to the other people who are part
made up of those people of me. Is there any layer of self where
who are most important for there are no others? We find ourselves
us. Of all the sources of partly by remembering those who are the
overwhelming, people are most deeply woven into us and by
the most significant… A big continuing to relate to them. An
part of our inner life is taken experienced psychotherapist told me that
up with people, and they a great deal of his work is to do with the
loom large in our memories, quality of the ‘community’ that clients
fantasies and hopes… carry around inside them.” [29, 31]
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Levinas against
empathy as the
3. Responsibility
foundation for ethics.
to God
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Søren Kierkegaard
[1813-1855] D. Bonhoeffer
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“Christ
the
What Are the Elements
Center”
of Responsibility DB?
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The concept of
abstraction is found
throughout Abstraction:
Bonhoeffer’s work. Metaphysics/ethics [SC]
Human ontology (i.e. Heidegger)
apart from revelation
Self from community
Morality apart from God
God apart from revelation
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[THST 605]
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