Solicitations: Poverties, Discourses and Limits

ContentsPrefaceEssay I: Orientations:Community in the EU and in JapanIntroductionsAn Elementary ContrastSome Buddhist BackgroundsSteps on a Shin Buddhist PathConcluding Remarks: Renewing European PhilosophicalReflection on CommunityEndnotesPart One: Moral SolicitationsEssay II: Poor No More?Problems with Sustainable DevelopmentOrientationsSome Basic Terms and DistinctionsDevelopment Goals and Eradicating Extreme PovertyA Global Philosophy of DevelopmentDifficulties with Development and SustainabilityAn Economic and Philosophical Alternative?An Eco-Ethical PerspectiveBy Way of ConcludingEndnotesEssay III: Poverty and Anti-Poverty in France TodayOrientationsFrance and the Challenge of Eradicating Extreme PovertyFrom Monetary Poverty to a Poverty of DestinyThe 2018 French Anti-Poverty ProgrammeA Fresh Start?The French Anti-Poverty Programme and Its PresuppositionsBy Way of ConcludingEndnotesPart Two: Symbolic DiscoursesEssay IV: Human Beings and Symbolic BehaviorsOrientationsCardinal TermsMaterial HistoriesLinguistic CommunicationsSymbolic BehaviorsThe Basic Property of Language's Triple FrameworkConcluding RemarksEndnotesEssay V: Persons and Symbolic DiscourseOrientationsSymbols and Full Linguistic CapacityBackgroundsLanguage's Symbolic CharacterNot Synthesis but ComplementarityAlternative Elements of Symbolic DiscourseThe Nature of the Verbal SymbolEnvoi: Full Human Linguistic CapacitiesEndnotesPart Three: Ethical LimitsEssay VI: Ethics versus Moral Philosophy?Orientations"Ethics" vs "Moral Philosophy"?Philosophical Ethics"What Can [Moral] Philosophy Contribute to Ethics?"EndnotesEssay VII: Ethical Limits: Resting on NightRenewing Philosophical Ethics TodayInterpreting A Poetry of SufferingInterpretation and RationalityThe Force of the NegativeMetaphysical SpaceEnvoi: The Dark Borders of EthicsEndnotesEssay VIII: Ethics and DestitutionOrientationsDarfur YesterdayRecollectionDeliveranceSharingTransferringRealizingActualizingEnvoiEndnotes