Ethical Attention and the Self in Iris Murdoch and Maurice Merleau-Ponty

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2020-10-29 DOI:10.1080/00071773.2020.1836978

Antony Fredriksson, Silvia Panizza

引用次数: 4

Abstract

ABSTRACT As attention, in philosophy, is mainly discussed in the philosophy of mind, its ethical aspects have remained relatively unexplored. One notable exception is Iris Murdoch. Another philosopher, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, considers attention to be central for his phenomenology of perception, with important ethical implications. This paper explores the role of attention in ethics by drawing on both Murdoch and Merleau-Ponty and uses the resources they variously offer to address two questions relating to the enigmatic role of the self in attention: how should we understand agency in the attending subject? And: to what extent is the subject responsible for the quality of her attention? Addressing these difficulties about the self is the key to articulating its ethical value, as well as the main apparent difference between the ethical concept and the one in ordinary language and philosophy of mind.

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艾里斯·默多克和莫里斯·梅洛-庞蒂的《伦理注意与自我》

摘要：由于注意力在哲学中主要在心灵哲学中进行讨论，其伦理方面仍相对未被探索。一个明显的例外是Iris Murdoch。另一位哲学家Maurice Merleau-Ponti认为注意力是其感知现象学的核心，具有重要的伦理意义。本文通过借鉴默多克和梅洛-庞蒂，探讨了注意力在伦理学中的作用，并利用他们提供的各种资源来解决与自我在注意力中的神秘作用有关的两个问题：我们应该如何理解参与主体中的代理？以及：受试者在多大程度上对她的注意力质量负责？解决这些关于自我的困难是阐明其伦理价值的关键，也是伦理概念与普通语言和心灵哲学中的伦理概念之间的主要明显区别。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

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