[P2P-F] Fwd: Ethics and Hospitality Right ? - wikipedia excerpt

[Michel Bauwens]

interesting, thanks Dante,

Michel

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From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 9:56 PM
Subject: Ethics and Hospitality Right ? - wikipedia excerpt
To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>


*" For Derrida, the foundation of ethics is hospitality, the readiness and
the inclination to welcome the Other into one's home. "*
*
*
*" Levinas's and Derrida's theories of ethics and hospitality hold out the
possibility of an acceptance of the Other as different but of equal standing
.*

*Isolation is not a feasible alternative in the world, therefore, it is
important to consider how best to approach these interactions*, and to
determine what is at stake for ourselves and the others: what conditions of
hospitality to impose, and whether or not we have responded to the call of
the Other. "

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmopolitanism#Modern_cosmopolitan_thinkers

 In his 1795 essay *Perpetual Peace*, Immanuel
Kant<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant> stages
a *ius cosmopoliticum* (cosmopolitan law/right) as a guiding principle to
protect people from war, and morally grounds this *cosmopolitan right by the
principle of universal hospitality*. Kant there claimed that the expansion
of hospitality with regard to "use of the right to the earth's surface which
belongs to the human race in common" (see common heritage of
humanity<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_heritage_of_humanity>)
would "finally bring the human race ever closer to a cosmopolitan
constitution".[4] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmopolitanism#cite_note-3>

The philosophical concepts of Emmanuel
Levinas<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Levinas>,
on ethics, and Jacques Derrida<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida>,
on hospitality, provide a theoretical framework for the relationships
between people in their everyday lives and apart from any form of written
laws or codes. For Levinas, the foundation of ethics consists in the
obligation to respond to the Other. In Being for the Other, he writes that
there is no "universal moral law," only the sense of responsibility
(goodness, mercy, charity) that the Other, in a state of vulnerability,
calls forth. The proximity of the Other is an important part of Levinas's
concept: the face of the Other is what compels the response.

*For Derrida, the foundation of ethics is hospitality, the readiness and the
inclination to welcome the Other into one's home.* Ethics, he claims, is
hospitality. Pure, unconditional hospitality is a desire that underscores
the conditional hospitality necessary in our relationships with
others.* Levinas's
and Derrida's theories of ethics and hospitality hold out the possibility of
an acceptance of the Other as different but of equal standing.** Isolation
is not a feasible alternative in the world, therefore, it is important to
consider how best to approach these interactions, and to determine what is
at stake for ourselves and the others: what conditions of hospitality to
impose, and whether or not we have responded to the call of the
Other.*Further, both theories reveal the importance of considering how
best to
interact with the Other and others, and what is at stake.

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also see :

Alexis de Tocqueville

Ana Arendt

Kant

Derrida

Levinas





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