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“The face of the other commands me.”
Levinas grounds all ethics in the encounter with anothers face and vulnerability.
“The face of the other instructs me”
— Emmanuel Levinas
“The face of the other is what forbids me to act with unkindness”
“Ethics precedes ontology.”
“The face of the other calls me to justice”
“Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”
— Iris Murdoch
“A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbour's.”
— Richard Whately
“Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.”
— Immanuel Kant
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.”
“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”
— G.K. Chesterton
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
— Bible, Luke 6:31
“Act so that the effects of your action are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.”
— Hans Jonas
