title: Ethical and ontological foundations of justice in E. Levinas’s philosophy
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metadata.value: Polatayko, Sergey V.
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metadata.value: Scherbakov, Vladimir P.
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metadata.value: 2020-05-26T10:37:20Z
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metadata.value: 2020-05-26T10:37:20Z
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metadata.value: 2020-03
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metadata.value: Polatayko S. V., Shcherbakov V. P. Ethical and ontological foundations of justice in E. Levinas’s philosophy. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2020, vol. 36, issue 1, pp. 59–68.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2020.105
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/17850
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metadata.value: The issue of justice occupies one of the central places in the history of philosophy. On the one
  hand, this is determined by the significant social importance of justice, and at the same time it
  is problematic to reach social and scientific consensus regarding the very conception of justice
  and its attainability. Perhaps, this is the reason, why this problem has become an unsolvable
  one, a sort of eternal philosophical question. Despite this, scholars demonstrate little interest
  in it and it is located on the periphery of the research field. However, the issue of justice has not lost its topicality in political and social philosophy, and it is perfectly proved by a vivid discussion
  initiated by J. Rawls, in which the concept of justice has been infused with a considerable
  value. The present discussion about the foundations and principles of justice became the reason
  to once again turn to the phenomenological concept of justice of Emmanuel Levinas. He
  believed that ethics had a priority over ontology, and such a fundamental approach allows one
  to analyze his ethical ideas as one of the perspective areas for inquiry into the phenomenon
  of justice. Our paper considers the main tenets of Levinas’s social phenomenology, among
  which ethics takes priority over ontology. It analyses the relations with the Other that appear
  on the basis of compassion and love, which Levinas perceived as understanding and acceptance
  in the context of the ideas of rationalism and universalism. The paper argues that ethical
  formalism is inherent to rationalist philosophy, whereas in social phenomenology another
  understanding of justice is suggested, which defines with the transcendency of the Other. The
  latter is demonstrated as an ontological advantage and the possibility of recognition of each
  human being as a unique person, worthy of respect.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 36; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: social phenomenology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: theory of justice
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metadata.value: ethics prioritizes over ontology
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: moral consciousness
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ethical formalism
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: universalism
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metadata.value: Ethical and ontological foundations of justice in E. Levinas’s philosophy
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metadata.value: Article
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