1. Christian Ethics in a Postmodern World
... the moral responsibility becomes infinite obligation of being responsible for the suffering, pain, deeds, and even faults of the Other. In ethics, the Other's right to exist has primacy over my own. If the Other's right to exist is the right to a place in the sun, then killing, in the literal sense, is the ultimate but not the only violent violation ... claim of the naked face of the Other comes upon me with immediacy. We are reminded of the infamous question of Cain after his murder of his brother Abel, "Am I my brother's keeper?- Levinas will give a positive answer to this question an...
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