Key Arguments

• He introduces the fourth subset (studies 7–9) as a final detour through ethics and morality: “The fourth subset (studies 7, 8 and 9) will have the task of proposing a final detour by way of the ethical and moral determinations of action, related to the categories of the good and of the obligatory, respectively.”
• He states its aim as revealing the ethical and moral dimensions of a subject who can be the bearer of imputed action: “In this way, I shall bring to light the ethical and moral dimensions of a subject to whom an action, whether good or not, whether performed out of duty or not, can be imputed.”
• He explicitly assigns to these three ethical studies the philosophical development of the dialectic of same and other: “it is in the three ethical studies that the dialectic of the same and the other will find its appropriate philosophical development.”
• He emphasizes that the self is never separated from its other at any stage, but that in ethics the dialectic becomes richest: “Never, at any stage, will the self have been separated from its other. It remains, however, that this dialectic, the richest of all, as the title of the work recalls, will take on its fullest development only in the studies in the areas of ethics and morality.”
• He summarizes the ethical interdependence of autonomy and alterity: “The autonomy of the self will appear then to be tightly bound up with solicitude for one's neighbor and with justice for each individual.”

Source Quotes

At the same time, and cor relatively, the subject of the action recounted will begin to correspond to the broader concept of the acting and suffering individual, which our analytic-hermeneutical procedure is capable of eliciting. The fourth subset (studies 7, 8 and 9) will have the task of proposing a final detour by way of the ethical and moral determinations of action, related to the categories of the good and of the obligatory, respectively. In this way, I shall bring to light the ethical and moral dimensions of a subject to whom an action, whether good or not, whether performed out of duty or not, can be imputed.

The fourth subset (studies 7, 8 and 9) will have the task of proposing a final detour by way of the ethical and moral determinations of action, related to the categories of the good and of the obligatory, respectively. In this way, I shall bring to light the ethical and moral dimensions of a subject to whom an action, whether good or not, whether performed out of duty or not, can be imputed. If the first and second studies were the first to set the process of analysis and reflection into operation, and if the fifth and sixth studies focused in particular on the opposition between selfhood and sameness, it is in the three ethical studies that the dialectic of the same and the other will find its appropriate philosophical development.

In this way, I shall bring to light the ethical and moral dimensions of a subject to whom an action, whether good or not, whether performed out of duty or not, can be imputed. If the first and second studies were the first to set the process of analysis and reflection into operation, and if the fifth and sixth studies focused in particular on the opposition between selfhood and sameness, it is in the three ethical studies that the dialectic of the same and the other will find its appropriate philosophical development. In truth, the dialectic of oneself and the other will not have been entirely missing from the earlier studies, nor from the dialectic of idem and ipse.

In truth, the dialectic of oneself and the other will not have been entirely missing from the earlier studies, nor from the dialectic of idem and ipse. Never, at any stage, will the self have been separated from its other. It remains, however, that this dialectic, the richest of all, as the title of the work recalls, will take on its fullest development only in the studies in the areas of ethics and morality.

Never, at any stage, will the self have been separated from its other. It remains, however, that this dialectic, the richest of all, as the title of the work recalls, will take on its fullest development only in the studies in the areas of ethics and morality. The autonomy of the self will appear then to be tightly bound up with solicitude for one's neighbor and with justice for each individual.

It remains, however, that this dialectic, the richest of all, as the title of the work recalls, will take on its fullest development only in the studies in the areas of ethics and morality. The autonomy of the self will appear then to be tightly bound up with solicitude for one's neighbor and with justice for each individual. The overview just presented of the studies that form this work gives an idea of the gap that separates the hcrmencutics of the self from the phi losophies of the cogito.

Key Concepts

• The fourth subset (studies 7, 8 and 9) will have the task of proposing a final detour by way of the ethical and moral determinations of action, related to the categories of the good and of the obligatory, respectively.
• I shall bring to light the ethical and moral dimensions of a subject to whom an action, whether good or not, whether performed out of duty or not, can be imputed.
• it is in the three ethical studies that the dialectic of the same and the other will find its appropriate philosophical development.
• Never, at any stage, will the self have been separated from its other.
• this dialectic, the richest of all, as the title of the work recalls, will take on its fullest development only in the studies in the areas of ethics and morality.
• The autonomy of the self will appear then to be tightly bound up with solicitude for one's neighbor and with justice for each individual.

Context

Continuation of the overview of the studies, focusing on studies 7–9 and their role in developing the dialectic of self and other in ethical and moral terms.