Review
Relational Complexity and Ethical Responsibility
The Journal of religious ethics, Vol.47(1), pp.154-165
03/01/2019
DOI: 10.1111/jore.12257
Abstract
Richard Miller uses the concepts of alterity and intimacy as touchstones for analyzing neglected aspects of our interpersonal and social relationships. He argues that, as persons in relation, we oscillate between experiences of alterity and intimacy, and it is with a greater awareness of this oscillation that we do best to consider our ethical responsibilities. This paper affirms the value of thinking aboutand potentially reimagininghow we conceive and relate to various others. It also makes explicit that, as persons, each of us is separate, not only from some, but from all other persons, even as we are also one with them. Moreover, each of us is different from all other persons, even as we are also like them. The aspects of persons and relationships on which we focus, in a given situation, matter because they partly determine the choices that we make in another's regard.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Relational Complexity and Ethical Responsibility
- Creators
- Diana Fritz Cates - Univ Iowa, Relig & Eth, Dept Religious Studies, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA
- Resource Type
- Review
- Publication Details
- The Journal of religious ethics, Vol.47(1), pp.154-165
- Publisher
- Wiley; HOBOKEN
- DOI
- 10.1111/jore.12257
- ISSN
- 0384-9694
- eISSN
- 1467-9795
- Number of pages
- 12
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/01/2019
- Academic Unit
- Religious Studies
- Record Identifier
- 9984397184202771
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