Volume 10, 2008
Ethics
Nicole Note
Pages 311-316
What Kind of Relation is There between Ethics and the Surpassing?
This paper describes the relation between the surpassing and ethics. It first describes how we re-think the surpassing. We divide it into a non-reflective and a reflective level. Next we link it to ethics. The point we want to make is that in order for something to be ethical it needs a surpassing element. Yet not all surpassing elements lead to ethics. Therefore, we will first delineate the surpassing.