Ethics and phenomenology / [edited by] Mark Sanders and J. Jeremy Wisnewski.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-340) and index.

Part I: Ethics and the classical phenomenologists. A phenomenological ethics of the absolute ought : investigating Husserl's unpublished ethical writings / Sophie Loidolt -- Between Scheler and Hartmann : problems of a material value-ethics / Eugene Kelly -- Heidegger's Aristotelian ethics / J. Jeremy Wisnewski -- Metaphysics after "the end of metaphysics" : recovering "the good" from Heidegger / Lawrence Vogel -- Merleau-Ponty and the ethics of engagement / Mark Sanders -- The hell of our choosing : Sartre's ethics and the impossibility of interpersonal conversion / Ed Grippe -- Levinasian autonomy : how to free a hostage / Dwight Furrow and Mark Wheeler. Part II. Phenomenological approaches to issues in ethics. Hands-on care : tactility and ethical performance / Maurice Hamington -- The phenomenological shift of parenthood / Janet Donohoe -- Coding the dictatorship of "the they" : a phenomenological critique of digital rights management / Gordon Hull -- Person and environment : vital sympathy and the roots of environmental ethics / John R. White -- Husserl and the responsibility and sacrifice of Derrida / Janet Donohoe -- War as katharsis? Scheler on war / Susan Gottlöber -- Eichmann in Athens : Hannah Arendt, Emmanuel Levinas and the new problem of evil / Lawrence Vogel -- From the other to the subject : Simone de Beauvoir and Judith Butler / Leah McClimans -- Phenomenology as an ascetic practice / Paul Gyllenhammer.

Ethics and Phenomenology is a collection of essays that explore the relationship between moral philosophy and the phenomenological tradition. Phenomenology is a vast and rich philosophical tradition which seeks to explain how we perceive the world. This, in turn, involves questions about one s relationship to the world and how one both acts and should act in the world. For this reason phenomenology entails an ethics, even if such an ethics is not always apparent in the work of phenomenological thinkers. The book is devoted to two central tasks: Section One offers essays exploring the resources available to moral philosophy in the work of the major phenomenologists of the 20th-century, including Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, and others. Part Two consists of essays demonstrating the way that the phenomenological method can facilitate advances in our thinking through the exploration of contemporary ethical issues, including environmentalism, intellectual property, parenting and others.