The tradition of western philosophy has focused its discussion of responsibility on delineating individual responsibility from collective responsibility and the responsibilities of the state. The political and moral issues of the late 20th century to the present -- WW2 and the Holocaust, the atom bomb, the exploitation of workers by global capitalism, anthropogenic climate change -- all expose the limitations of this paradigm of responsibility.
Hannah Arendt and Iris Marion Young offer us a more responsive alternative vision of responsibility. In this webinar Danna Aduna, PJ Mariano Capistrano, and Lovelyn Paclibar discuss a selection of texts on this topic by Arendt and Young, with an emphasis on how to approach these texts in the philosophy classroom.
Speakers and bionotes:
Danna Aduna is an instructor at the Ateneo de Manila University. She started teaching philosophy in 2016. She wrote her master’s thesis in 2018 on the notions of finitude in the thought of Heidegger and of Levinas. She is an advocate against gender-based violence and is the publications and research coordinator of Time’s Up Ateneo.
Lovelyn Paclibar is an assistant professor of philosophy at the Ateneo de Manila University. She completed her PhD at the Higher Institute of Philosophy - KU Leuven in 2019. Her current research is on the philosophical treatment of the concept of solidarity, the continued learning processes between philosophy and religion, and how it can inform a political philosophy of education.
PJ Mariano is a PhD candidate at the Université de Namur in Belgium, working on developing a conception of responsibility for justice for the capability approach. She is also a member of the Department of Philosophy, Ateneo de Manila University, and works at the intersection of philosophy and the development world. She is also married and a mom of a feisty 6-year-old.
Pushing the Limits of Responsibility: Hannah Arendt and Iris Marion Young