Teisingumo etika : rabiniški Levino etikos sampratos aspektai

ENIn his Judaic texts, Difficile libertÈ, Emmanuel Levinas presents his judaic concept of ethics as essentially ethics of justice, which is rooted in ritual discipline. This ethics, according to LÈvinas is the essence of the ethics of the love for the neighbour, of real and effective kindness, because the latter reclaims self-discipline, self-restraint, bonding. True kindness in itself is Justice done to the neighbour. In the levinasian concept of ethics, the Torahës utterances, not the philosophic self-sufficiency of the selfconsciousness of the I, bound human licence, his violence. In the rabbinic tradition too, Jewish ethics (as lifnei mishurat ha-din) is considered to be rooted in Halakah, though natural ethics (derekh eretz) is understood as the lower border of Torah ethics. Jewish ethics, or Torah ethics, in the rabbinic tradition, is not possible without the Torahës utterances. The latter bounds not only human, but also Godës licence and violence. On the other hand, the concept of ethics in Levinasí thought is essentially the ethics of Justice, and as such is rooted rather in a rabbinic understanding of ethics as works of Justice (tzedekah) and kindness (gmillut hassadim) than in Western ethics of pursuing the moral Good.