Show simple item record

dc.rights.licenseIn Copyrighten_US
dc.creatorTaylor, Zachary Joseph
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-22T13:45:36Z
dc.date.available2017-05-22T13:45:36Z
dc.date.created2017
dc.identifierWLURG38_TaylorZ_POV_2017_A
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11021/33878
dc.descriptionZachary Joseph Taylor is a member of the Class of 2017 of Washington and Lee University.en_US
dc.descriptionCapstone; [FULL-TEXT FREELY AVAILABLE ONLINE]en_US
dc.description.abstractThe moral deliberative theories that ethicists and justice advocates use to address poverty issues all stem from the analytic philosophical tradition, and, while no doubt helpful, they are not fully adequate. Emmanuel Levinas, a French phenomenologist from the continental philosophical tradition, offers what Derrida calls “an ethics of ethics” that is relevant to poverty studies. Levinas's phenomenological description of responsibility is distinctive from and instructive to analytic accounts of moral responsibility and moral duties as responsibilities. In particular, Levinas is instructive to utilitarian and Kantian notions of responsibility insofar as each theory falls short when it comes to our moral sense of self and solipsistic individualism, respectively. In the end, since Levinas's description of responsibility addresses some of the principle inadequacies of analytic accounts of moral responsibility, ethicists and justice advocates would do well to consider his work in poverty studies.en_US
dc.format.extent58 pagesen_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.rightsThis material is made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used should be fully credited with the source.en_US
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en_US
dc.subject.otherWashington and Lee University, Shepherd Poverty Programen_US
dc.titleThe Essential Poverty of the Face: A Case for Levinasian Responsibility and Justice in Poverty Studiesen_US
dc.typeTexten_US
dcterms.isPartOfRG38 - Student Papers
dc.rights.holderTaylor, Zachary Joseph
dc.subject.fastLévinas, Emmanuelen_US
dc.subject.fastResponsibilityen_US
dc.subject.fastEthicsen_US
dc.subject.fastPhilosophyen_US
local.departmentShepherd Poverty Programen_US
local.scholarshiptypeCapstoneen_US


Files in this item

Thumbnail

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record