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LIFE IN PROCESS: THE LIVED-BODY ETHICS FOR FUTURE
LIFE IN PROCESS: THE LIVED-BODY ETHICS FOR FUTURE

Author(s): Anne Sauka
Subject(s): Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Psychology of Self, Phenomenology, Sociology of Politics, Ontology
Published by: Latvijas Universitātes Filozofijas un socioloģijas institūts
Keywords: life; lived-body; ethics; process; ontology; Posthumanism;

Summary/Abstract: The article explores the concept of ‘life’ via processual ontology, contrasting the approaches of substance and processual ontologies, and investigates the link between ontological assumptions and sociopolitical discourses, stating that the predominant substance ontologies also promote an objectifying and anthropocentric framework in sociopolitical discourses and ethical approaches. Arguing for a necessary shift in the ontological conceptualization of life to enable environmentally-minded ethics for the future, the article explores the tie between the sociopolitical discourses embedded in a worldview that is grounded in substance ontology and ethical frameworks. Whilst affirming this tie, this study also explicates the limitations and potential feasibility of a processual understanding of life, in the context of the existential disposition of the self-alienated lived-body self that is ontologically predisposed to objectification as a necessary pre-condition to human self-awareness.

  • Issue Year: XXVIII/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 154-183
  • Page Count: 30
  • Language: English
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