{"id":6474,"date":"2011-02-11T11:08:48","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T16:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=6474"},"modified":"2011-02-11T12:31:16","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T17:31:16","slug":"loizidou-ethics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2011\/02\/11\/loizidou-ethics\/","title":{"rendered":"Loizidou ethics antigone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Loizidou, Elena. Judith Butler: Ethics, Law, Politics<\/em>. New York: Routledge Cavendish, 2007.<\/p>\n

a de-struktion of the way philosophy, since Plato, constituted the subject, Levinas’s critique of western metaphysics offered us an important lesson. We have learned that if we are not to regress into morality, if we are to have an ethical relationship with the Other, we are required to establish ethics as a first philosophy.<\/p>\n

The requires a reconception of how we understand ourselves. It necessitates the deconstruction of the ego or knowing self when the Other, the one that is external to me, calls upon me.<\/span> 72<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In some respects, the call for this type of ethics could also be a description of moments when my ego, my self-knowledge, is reconstituted via the call of the Other, where I fail to reduce the Other to myself.\u00a0 … It becomes paramount that if we talk of ethics, bereft of moralisation, we need to think of the subject as, unreflexive, not-knowing, a surprise, non-identical and particular<\/strong>. As is by now apparent, Levinas’s critique of western metaphysical philosophy could be comfortably directed towards Descartes and Kant.<\/p>\n

quoting Antigone<\/p>\n

I’d never have taken this ordeal upon myself, never defied our people’s will. What law, you ask, do I satisfy with what I say? A husband dead, there might have been another. A child by another too, if I had lost the first. But mother and father both lost in the halls of Death, no brother could ever spring to light again<\/em>.\u00a0 (Robert Fagles Trans.)<\/p>\n

burying her brother … was done in honour or celebration of the particularity of her brother. Her brother, unlike a child or a husband, is irreplaceable, especially since both her parents are dead. She stresses that she would not have acted the same in other circumstances, turning her act into a singular act. Ethical subjects \u2014 subjects that act responsibly … are the ones that celebrate the singularity of the other, without reducing the other to the universal <\/strong>and the laws that govern this universality. It is not difficult to see how Antigone is made into an ethical heroine, given this. 81<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Loizidou, Elena. Judith Butler: Ethics, Law, Politics. New York: Routledge Cavendish, 2007. a de-struktion of the way philosophy, since Plato, constituted the subject, Levinas’s critique of western metaphysics offered us an important lesson. We have learned that if we are not to regress into morality, if we are to have an ethical relationship with the … Continue reading “Loizidou ethics antigone”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,138,38,100,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butler","category-butlerethics","category-ethics","category-hegel","category-subjectivity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6474"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6476,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6474\/revisions\/6476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}