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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. What Respect Leaves Out is a sustained philosophical essay on a quiet failure within morally serious lives: the gap between meeting one's obligations and inhabiting one's relations. Drawing on a long career of reflection and the experience of looking back across decades of teaching, friendship, and family life, Gavin Doyle examines how careful people may behave honorably toward one another while remaining, in some essential sense, unreachable.The book argues that the modern moral tradition, organized around the protection of persons against the characteristic dangers others pose, has become extraordinarily articulate about violation and considerably less articulate about what it means to truly meet another human being once violation has been excluded. Respect, Doyle suggests, is the floor of moral life - indispensable, but a floor is not yet a room, and a room is not yet the full inward reality of a life shared with others.Across fifteen carefully calibrated sections, the book engages with Iris Murdoch, Simone Weil, Bernard Williams, and Emmanuel Levinas as figures who reached the edge of this territory but did not fully enter it. It develops a working vocabulary - defendedness, presence, unmetness - for naming structural conditions that no inherited moral language has quite captured. It tests its claims against the strongest philosophical objections, including those of contemporary Kantian ethics. And it grounds its philosophical work in three sustained lived passages: a brief encounter with a struggling student, a long friendship that gradually thinned into formality, and the slow decline and death of the writer's grandfather.The book refuses redemption. It does not offer a method or a practice of presence. What it offers instead is the chance, if the reader is willing, to recognize a pattern earlier than the writer did. Written under a pseudonym to permit honesty about the writer's own failures, this is a work for readers who suspect that ethical correctness alone may leave forms of human loneliness morally unaccounted for, and who wish to see the suspicion examined seriously. A retired philosopher's sustained essay on the gap between behaving honorably and being truly present - and on what inherited moral language has not quite named. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - What Respect Leaves Out is a sustained philosophical essay on a quiet failure within morally serious lives: the gap between meeting one's obligations and inhabiting one's relations. Drawing on a long career of reflection and the experience of looking back across decades of teaching, friendship, and family life, Gavin Doyle examines how careful people may behave honorably toward one another while remaining, in some essential sense, unreachable.The book argues that the modern moral tradition, organized around the protection of persons against the characteristic dangers others pose, has become extraordinarily articulate about violation and considerably less articulate about what it means to truly meet another human being once violation has been excluded. Respect, Doyle suggests, is the floor of moral life - indispensable, but a floor is not yet a room, and a room is not yet the full inward reality of a life shared with others.Across fifteen carefully calibrated sections, the book engages with Iris Murdoch, Simone Weil, Bernard Williams, and Emmanuel Levinas as figures who reached the edge of this territory but did not fully enter it. It develops a working vocabulary - defendedness, presence, unmetness - for naming structural conditions that no inherited moral language has quite captured. It tests its claims against the strongest philosophical objections, including those of contemporary Kantian ethics. And it grounds its philosophical work in three sustained lived passages: a brief encounter with a struggling student, a long friendship that gradually thinned into formality, and the slow decline and death of the writer's grandfather.The book refuses redemption. It does not offer a method or a practice of presence. What it offers instead is the chance, if the reader is willing, to recognize a pattern earlier than the writer did. Written under a pseudonym to permit honesty about the writer's own failures, this is a work for readers who suspect that ethical correctness alone may leave forms of human loneliness morally unaccounted for, and who wish to see the suspicion examined seriously.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. What Respect Leaves Out is a sustained philosophical essay on a quiet failure within morally serious lives: the gap between meeting one's obligations and inhabiting one's relations. Drawing on a long career of reflection and the experience of looking back across decades of teaching, friendship, and family life, Gavin Doyle examines how careful people may behave honorably toward one another while remaining, in some essential sense, unreachable.The book argues that the modern moral tradition, organized around the protection of persons against the characteristic dangers others pose, has become extraordinarily articulate about violation and considerably less articulate about what it means to truly meet another human being once violation has been excluded. Respect, Doyle suggests, is the floor of moral life - indispensable, but a floor is not yet a room, and a room is not yet the full inward reality of a life shared with others.Across fifteen carefully calibrated sections, the book engages with Iris Murdoch, Simone Weil, Bernard Williams, and Emmanuel Levinas as figures who reached the edge of this territory but did not fully enter it. It develops a working vocabulary - defendedness, presence, unmetness - for naming structural conditions that no inherited moral language has quite captured. It tests its claims against the strongest philosophical objections, including those of contemporary Kantian ethics. And it grounds its philosophical work in three sustained lived passages: a brief encounter with a struggling student, a long friendship that gradually thinned into formality, and the slow decline and death of the writer's grandfather.The book refuses redemption. It does not offer a method or a practice of presence. What it offers instead is the chance, if the reader is willing, to recognize a pattern earlier than the writer did. Written under a pseudonym to permit honesty about the writer's own failures, this is a work for readers who suspect that ethical correctness alone may leave forms of human loneliness morally unaccounted for, and who wish to see the suspicion examined seriously. A retired philosopher's sustained essay on the gap between behaving honorably and being truly present - and on what inherited moral language has not quite named. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. What Respect Leaves Out is a sustained philosophical essay on a quiet failure within morally serious lives: the gap between meeting one's obligations and inhabiting one's relations. Drawing on a long career of reflection and the experience of looking back across decades of teaching, friendship, and family life, Gavin Doyle examines how careful people may behave honorably toward one another while remaining, in some essential sense, unreachable.The book argues that the modern moral tradition, organized around the protection of persons against the characteristic dangers others pose, has become extraordinarily articulate about violation and considerably less articulate about what it means to truly meet another human being once violation has been excluded. Respect, Doyle suggests, is the floor of moral life - indispensable, but a floor is not yet a room, and a room is not yet the full inward reality of a life shared with others.Across fifteen carefully calibrated sections, the book engages with Iris Murdoch, Simone Weil, Bernard Williams, and Emmanuel Levinas as figures who reached the edge of this territory but did not fully enter it. It develops a working vocabulary - defendedness, presence, unmetness - for naming structural conditions that no inherited moral language has quite captured. It tests its claims against the strongest philosophical objections, including those of contemporary Kantian ethics. And it grounds its philosophical work in three sustained lived passages: a brief encounter with a struggling student, a long friendship that gradually thinned into formality, and the slow decline and death of the writer's grandfather.The book refuses redemption. It does not offer a method or a practice of presence. What it offers instead is the chance, if the reader is willing, to recognize a pattern earlier than the writer did. Written under a pseudonym to permit honesty about the writer's own failures, this is a work for readers who suspect that ethical correctness alone may leave forms of human loneliness morally unaccounted for, and who wish to see the suspicion examined seriously. A retired philosopher's sustained essay on the gap between behaving honorably and being truly present - and on what inherited moral language has not quite named. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. What Respect Leaves Out | An Essay on Moral Adequacy and Presence | Gavin Doyle | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | Statera Press | EAN 9781971828046 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.…