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King, Mark D.

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Moral violence: Levinas and the limits of role morality.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Moral violence: Levinas and the limits of role morality./
Author:	King, Mark D.
Description:	231 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Richard B. Miller.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-08A.
Subject:	Philosophy. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3232569
ISBN:	9780542849916

Moral violence: Levinas and the limits of role morality.
King, Mark D.

Moral violence: Levinas and the limits of role morality. - 231 p.

Adviser: Richard B. Miller.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2006.

The purpose of this dissertation is to call into question our contemporary understanding of the term role as it pertains to role morality. I argue that academic discourse concerning role morality in the modern West has become impoverished because we have forgotten that the term is not, in fact, literal, but is actually a metaphor with roots in theatrical performance. This inadvertent literalization obscures the fact that use of the term is not simply an act of designation but of interpretation that can never be neutral.

ISBN: 9780542849916Subjects--Topical Terms:

516511
Philosophy.

Moral violence: Levinas and the limits of role morality.
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520 $a The purpose of this dissertation is to call into question our contemporary understanding of the term role as it pertains to role morality. I argue that academic discourse concerning role morality in the modern West has become impoverished because we have forgotten that the term is not, in fact, literal, but is actually a metaphor with roots in theatrical performance. This inadvertent literalization obscures the fact that use of the term is not simply an act of designation but of interpretation that can never be neutral.
520 $a I present a genealogical survey of role metaphors from ancient Greece, through Roman times, and ultimately the Enlightenment, showing that there have actually been many metaphors for understanding the role, each of which offers its own interpretation. I show that the theatrical role metaphor was absent from the language of ancient Greece, which was nevertheless rich with metaphors for the role. The theatrical metaphor would be introduced later by the Romans, and reflects the unique Roman context within which it came into being. This classical theatrical metaphor for role is different from the modern version with which we are familiar, which first came into being in the writings of Montaigne, who adapted the theatrical metaphor from Cicero's writings on role morality.
520 $a I show that the modern theatrical metaphor, if taken literally, leads to the a priori presumption that a role is somehow distinct from the rest of the person. Thus, when fulfilling the duties of one's station, one often presumes that these duties trump duties derived from other aspects of the person's identity, almost as if one is acting not as an individual but simply as, for example, a lawyer or a doctor. Expanding on the theories of Levinas concerning violence and identity, I will argue that this particular violence is a moral violence, for it limits the capacity of the individual to fully draw on his or her cache of moral obligations by removing certain components of identity from the table of consideration.
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