Otherness and Ethics : An Ethical Discourse of Levinas and Confucius (Kongzi)

Intro; Title Page; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Theoretical Foundation on Ethics and Otherness; Chapter 1: Reciprocity and the Radical Otherness; Part II: Emmanuel Levinas; Chapter 2: The Face of the Other; Chapter 3: The Same and the Other; Chapter 4: Ethics, Responsibility and the Human Reality; Part III: Confucius (Kongzi) and the Analects; Chapter 5: Ren and Humanness; Chapter 6: Humanness (Ren) and Others; Chapter 7: Ren and Ethics; Part IV: The Ethics of Otherness in Levinas and Kongzi; Chapter 8: Kongzi vs. Levinas; Chapter 9: The Ethics of Otherness; Conclusion; Bibliography "Otherness and Ethics demonstrates how Levinas and Confucius (Kongzi) develop their ideas of otherness and ethics. Most of all, the meaning of inter-subjectivity is examined in order to employ this point as this book delves into the phenomenon of face in Levinas and the significance of ren (human-relatedness) in Confucius (Kongzi). In addition, this book searches their different notions of humanity and relatedness to have a creative discourse for developing the concept of ethics of otherness as it concentrates on the formulation of ethical narratives in Levinas and Confucius (Kongzi). Thus, this book can open a possibility of building of ethics of otherness through reviewing ethical foundations of Levinas and Confucius (Kongzi) and discussing the meaning of otherness."-- Back cover.