Published 2011
“…The fourth is the idea that recognition of responsibility is not necessarily based only in a narrow form of reason, but arises in at least two other ways: when, following Levinas, an a priori obligation to the other is triggered; and when one has fellow-feeling for,or empathises with, the other.The
fifth element of this ethic is that when this responsibility is recognised and the agent chooses to act (and so acts) to protect, care for, nurture and help realize, the good-of-their-own that all living things have as a defining property the agent takes on the virtue of responsibility.…”
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