Volume 11, 2023
Eco-ethical Judgement and Practical Wisdom
Reidar Due
Pages 47-64
https://doi.org/10.5840/ecoethica2024101660
Nominalist Intersubjectivity
In this paper, I present a nominalist ethics of intersubjectivity based on the principle of a discourse transcendent reality of the Other within an intersubjective relationship. Through a discussion of the authors Foucault, Sartre, and Hegel, and the film Drive My Car, the article presents a phenomenology of the appearance of one¡¯s own body and of the body of the Other, according, either, to evaluative criteria or to existential criteria not accessible to discursive handling. The argument is nominalist in its denial of a discursive purchase on the Other. It is realist in its exploration of the discourse transcendent reality of the Other. The argument moves between different orders of scale.