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These remarks focus on what might be termed the transcendental but empirical conditions of ethics - ethics as indistinguishable and contrasting sets of presuppositions about what makes possible other than instrumental relations among human beings. The discussion is ‘transcendental’ in a loose Kantian sense of asking how or why certain beliefs are possible, especially when this possibility is itself not directly addressed in the beliefs themselves. By ‘empirical’ I mean concrete historical realities whose dark mysteries ethics are designed - consciously or unconsciously - to solve.
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Gottlieb, R.S. (1994). Levinas, Feminism, Holocaust, Ecocide. In: Gould, C.C., Cohen, R.S. (eds) Artifacts, Representations and Social Practice. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 154. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0902-4_22
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