I finished reading The Origins of Responsibility by François Raffoul earlier this week. There are definitely quite a few take aways for me. The biggest which I mentioned in a previous post, is the correlation between how we conceive of being and how we then conceive of ethics, and vice a versa. It is interesting [...]

I just recently finished the introduction to François Raffoul’s The Origins of Responsibility. It has been extremely interesting and enlightening thus far. One of the main points he described in the introduction was the substantial connection within philosophy’s between one’s conception of being and one’s conception of responsibility. The concept of responsibility has traditionally been [...]

Responsibility is at least the acknowledgment of a fractured relation between humanity—specifically each persons human soul—and the rest of creation, a fracture for which human beings have to take the blame. (165) The decision for beliefs is clearly, for Dostoevsky, a matter of deciding for a structure of moral life authoritatively shaped by the central [...]