Manières d’être humain. Une autre philosophie morale

Philosophical ethics has been dominated for a long time by views (such as Utilitarianism and Kantianism) which aim at establishing normative criteria in isolation from concrete situations to which they are supposed to be applied. This book reverses the perspective and shifts the attention to the circumstances which make individual and social problems humanly and morally salient. The task of ethics consists in deepening and reorganizing the ways of seeing, feeling, responding to the world which define the conceptual dimensions of our lives. The author elaborates on a tradition which begins with Wittgenstein and converses with Stanley Cavell, Elisabeth Anscombe, Iris Murdoch and Cora Diamond. It wishes to forge new philosophical instruments which allow to treat in a new way the issues of birth, death, sexuality and the conceptions of the human.