from Part I - The Structure and Scope of the Moral Point of View
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 June 2021
An ethics of reading holds that reading is itself an act of ethical significance. When reading is responsible to the meaning of a text, it shows the author a respect the author deserves. Developing this ethics of reading places some of the key questions of philosophical hermeneutics – that is, of the theory of interpretation – in a new and illuminating setting. Just as importantly, it shows how reading in its ethical dimension gives powerful expression to the essence of ethical thinking itself.
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