More than All the Others
Meditation on Responsibility
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12643204 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martin J Matustik (Purdue University West Lafayette, corresponding author), Martin Matuštík (Purdue University) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 47-60 |
| Publication date | 2007-02-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Horizons (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1440-9917 • E-ISSN: 1568-5160 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1558/crit.v8i1.47 |
| OpenAlex | W1967219641 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
This essay examines one aspect of the wide-ranging philosophical back ground of the intellectual and dissident movement for human rights in one-time communist Czechoslovakia. I shall meditate on Jan Patočka's finite responsibility, Derrida's aporetic emphasis on the infinite dimension of responsibility, and Lévinasian-Dostoyevskyan ethico-existential variations on in/finite responsibility. Havel alludes to hyperbolic ethics in a parenthetical remark on the birth of "Charta 77", the Manifesto for Human Rights in Czechoslovakia. The question before us is this: which dimension of responsibility appears at this birth or, to put it otherwise, what responsibility is born in care for the soul and polis
Dimension (graph theory · Epistemology · Existentialism · Human rights · Manifesto · Meditation · Political science · Pure mathematics · Sociology · Soul · Theology · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2009 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |