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Ethics of Hospitality (Hardcover)
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Ethics of Hospitality (Hardcover)
Series: Law and Politics
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The source of hospitality lies in the fundamental ethical
experiences that make up the fabric of the social lives of people.
Therein lies a primary form of humanity. Whether we are guests or
hosts, this reveals our situation in a world made up of receiving
and meeting, leaving room for the liberty to give and receive
beyond the imperatives of reciprocity. This book proposes an ethic
that promotes the possibility of stirring emotion before that of
protecting ourselves from unexpected encounters. Fundamental
ethical competence consists of opening up to the wholly other and
to others, to be accessible to the world's solicitations. There is
moral superiority of vulnerable love over control and moderation,
of generous passion over rational prudence and of excess over
exchange. Constructing an ethic of hospitality is essential at a
time when we are torn between the imperatives of modernization and
growth and the demands of concern and protection. The experience we
all have today, that of the fragility of the world, is giving rise
to a powerful tendency toward solicitude. From such a perspective,
the duty of individuals no longer consists of protecting themselves
from society, but of defending it, taking care of a social fabric
outside of which no identity can be formed.
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