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Being Implicated in the World
"... environmental ethics, and nature religion. According to Emmanuel Levinas, ethics arise in the face of the other; as the other calls out to oneself, one is obligated to the other. To extend this beyond Levinas ’ focus on the interhuman, one needs a sense of ethics that does not ask who can make such ..."
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environmental ethics, and nature religion. According to Emmanuel Levinas, ethics arise in the face of the other; as the other calls out to oneself, one is obligated to the other. To extend this beyond Levinas ’ focus on the interhuman, one needs a sense of ethics that does not ask who can make such calls before feeling obligated. Building on Levinas ’ ethical alternative to egoistic subjectivity, “the one for the other ” as oneself responsible to the other human, I develop a form of ethical subjectivity responsible not only to human others, but to all others in the more than human world. 1 I call this form of ethical subjectivity “being with/in. ” Like Levinas ’ “the one for the other, ” being with/in provides an alternative to Cartesian subjectivity and the fragmented subjectivities of postmodern thought. Being with/in addresses the questions of “what does it mean to be a human self in a more than human world? ” and “who is this ‘our ’ in ‘what are our obligations to the others?’ ” It explores what it means to

