John Benjamins Publishing Company
Ethics in dialogue
Abstract
Ethics is considered to be rooted in human nature. Human beings as dialogic individuals have to balance their self-interests and social concerns. In performance, there is no ethical codex that determines once for all what is ‘good’ and ‘right.’ We have, in any historical moment, to decide how we want to mediate between ethical ideals and reality. Variables of use, such as practicability, culture, and interest, shape the decision in complex action games. After a brief survey of the history of studies on ethics, the article outlines the basic points of a holistic theory of dialogue in performance, and analyses a few authentic examples, which demonstrate that ethical ideals have to be adapted to conditions of reality.
Abstract
Ethics is considered to be rooted in human nature. Human beings as dialogic individuals have to balance their self-interests and social concerns. In performance, there is no ethical codex that determines once for all what is ‘good’ and ‘right.’ We have, in any historical moment, to decide how we want to mediate between ethical ideals and reality. Variables of use, such as practicability, culture, and interest, shape the decision in complex action games. After a brief survey of the history of studies on ethics, the article outlines the basic points of a holistic theory of dialogue in performance, and analyses a few authentic examples, which demonstrate that ethical ideals have to be adapted to conditions of reality.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Acknowledgements vii
- Introduction ix
- Ethics in dialogue 1
- Impassible peace 25
- Proposal for a typology of listening markers and listening request markers 45
- The ethics of intercultural dialogue 77
- Differing versions of dialogic aptitude 127
- An interlocutory logic approach of a case of professional ethics 149
- Dialogue and ethics in the library 179
- Agents of awakening 199
- The rhetoric of discourse 215
- Fragments, limbs, and dreadful accidents 245
- Dialogic ethics 265
- Index 283
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Acknowledgements vii
- Introduction ix
- Ethics in dialogue 1
- Impassible peace 25
- Proposal for a typology of listening markers and listening request markers 45
- The ethics of intercultural dialogue 77
- Differing versions of dialogic aptitude 127
- An interlocutory logic approach of a case of professional ethics 149
- Dialogue and ethics in the library 179
- Agents of awakening 199
- The rhetoric of discourse 215
- Fragments, limbs, and dreadful accidents 245
- Dialogic ethics 265
- Index 283
