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The Ethics of Uncertainty asks what it means to live, act, decide,
and respond responsibly, in the aporia of freedom itself - a
freedom which on one hand opens us to the open space of possible
possibilities, and on the other, leaves us no stable ground or
measure for pre/determined decision making. The aporia of freedom
is conditioned by the indeterminate space of knowing we must make
decisions, and yet, at the same time, we cannot call on an absolute
authority or measure as a guide. Aporias open us to freedom, the
place where, as Derrida has taught us, an ethical decision may
occur. Allowing indeterminacy to exist in our becoming allows a
continuous coming to be with others - a becoming always open to the
"to come" (Derrida) of the future. Always drawing us toward the
possibility of making a decision within the fabric of indecision,
aporias give us the possibility of ethical becoming. Overall, this
text points us to the possibility of living an ethical life in a
world without absolute measure - an ethics, in other words, of
uncertainty. Michael Anker currently teaches philosophy at the
College of New Rochelle in New York and a workshop at the European
Graduate School (Switzerland).
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