Original scientific paper
Ethics of the Truth of Event with Alain Badiou
Hrvoje Petrušić
; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Split
Abstract
Our paper offers an analytical presentation of the basic ideas of Badiou’s views on the phenomenon of the ideology of ethics. We have confined ourselves primarily to his criticism of prevailing trends in contemporary philosophy that refer to the legacy of German idealism and E. Levinas’s philosophy of alterity. We point to the author’s cri- tical detection of the symptoms of ideological within the mentioned trends in ethical theory, especially to the problem of human rights, radical Evil and the Other as the basic ideas inherent in modern consideration of the phenomenon of ethical. The second part of the paper brings out a concise interpretation of the content of affirma- tive orientation in Badiou’s ethics of a truth event (ethics of Same- ness), as well as its basic assumptions derived from the ontology of the multiple that the author himself advocates. Presenting the core features of the ethics of the truth of event we compare them with the principles on which the ideologies that the author criticizes rest.
Keywords
Badiou; ethics; ideology; radical evil; multiculturalism
Hrčak ID:
161298
URI
Publication date:
6.7.2016.
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