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Existential Phenomenology, Ethics, and Post-Humanist Theory In this project we explore the relation of existential phenomenology to ethics and post-humanist theory: Levinas shifts the source of meaning from the Subject (S) to the object (O). In order to understand how and why he does this we need to understand and delineate the anthropological mistake of which he finds us guilty. We will analyze this mistake as well as sketch an account of that which corrects this anthropology and outlines a new basis for ethics. Even though the problem of motivation is still present the source of ethics is the Other, not the self. Ethics is now seen as an interruption in one's selfish life. The methodology is phenomenological. This is so because it relies one's experience of the appeal of the Other--his look--and not on traditional moral calculation or the analysis of principles. The research probes into the ontology and phenomenology of this relation. Join EPIS today and become apart of this research! Click here.
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