Solicitations

Preface

Essay I: Orientations:
Community in the EU and in Japan

Introductions
An Elementary Contrast
Some Buddhist Backgrounds
Steps on a Shin Buddhist Path
Concluding Remarks: Renewing European Philosophical
Reflection on Community
Endnotes

Part One: Moral Solicitations

Essay II: Poor No More?
Problems with Sustainable Development

Orientations
Some Basic Terms and Distinctions
Development Goals and Eradicating Extreme Poverty
A Global Philosophy of Development
Difficulties with Development and Sustainability
An Economic and Philosophical Alternative?
An Eco-Ethical Perspective
By Way of Concluding
Endnotes

Essay III: Poverty and Anti-Poverty in France Today

Orientations
France and the Challenge of Eradicating Extreme Poverty
From Monetary Poverty to a Poverty of Destiny
The 2018 French Anti-Poverty Programme
A Fresh Start?
The French Anti-Poverty Programme and Its Presuppositions
By Way of Concluding
Endnotes

Part Two: Symbolic Discourses

Essay IV: Human Beings and Symbolic Behaviors

Orientations
Cardinal Terms
Material Histories
Linguistic Communications
Symbolic Behaviors
The Basic Property of Language's Triple Framework
Concluding Remarks
Endnotes

Essay V: Persons and Symbolic Discourse

Orientations
Symbols and Full Linguistic Capacity
Backgrounds
Language's Symbolic Character
Not Synthesis but Complementarity
Alternative Elements of Symbolic Discourse
The Nature of the Verbal Symbol
Envoi: Full Human Linguistic Capacities
Endnotes
Part Three: Ethical Limits

Essay VI: Ethics versus Moral Philosophy?

Orientations
"Ethics" vs "Moral Philosophy"?
Philosophical Ethics
"What Can [Moral] Philosophy Contribute to Ethics?"
Endnotes

Essay VII: Ethical Limits: Resting on Night

Renewing Philosophical Ethics Today
Interpreting A Poetry of Suffering
Interpretation and Rationality
The Force of the Negative
Metaphysical Space
Envoi: The Dark Borders of Ethics
Endnotes

Essay VIII: Ethics and Destitution

Orientations
Darfur Yesterday
Recollection
Deliverance
Sharing
Transferring
Realizing
Actualizing
Envoi
Endnotes