An Ethical Phenomenology of Listening:
\nSø\;ren Kierkegaard and Hannah Arendt on the &lsquo\;Voice&rsquo\; of Conscience
\nAbstract:
\nWhat does it mean to listen to the &lsquo\;voice of conscience\,&rsquo\; and how can we know whether we have understood what this &lsquo\;inner voice&rsquo\; wants to tell us? After all\, one&rsquo\;s conscience does not &lsquo\;speak&rsquo\; audibly\, often not even in words\, but rather non-verbally through feelings. When listening\, we are on the threshold between &lsquo\;the inner&rsquo\; and &lsquo\;the outer\,&rsquo\; between self and other. Most often\, we have to relate to several conflicting voices &lsquo\;within&rsquo\; and &lsquo\;without.&rsquo\; How can we\, then\, decide which voice we shall heed? Sø\;ren Kierkegaard&rsquo\;s view of the self-other-relation\, as seen through the &lsquo\;lens&rsquo\; of an ethical phenomenology of listening\, will be compared to Hannah Arendt&rsquo\;s discussion of how a human being&rsquo\;s inner dialogue takes place in thinking&mdash\;with special consideration of the interaction between emotion and cognition.
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\nBio:
\nClaudia Welz \;is Professor with special responsibilities in Ethics and Philosophy of Religion at the University of Copenhagen and Founding Director of \;CJMC: Center for the Study of Jewish Thought in Modern Culture.
\nShe is the author of the books \;Love&rsquo\;s Transcendence and the Problem of Theodicy \;(Mohr Siebeck\, 2008)\, \;Vertrauen und Versuchung \;(Mohr Siebeck\, 2010)\, \;Humanity in God&rsquo\;s Image: An Interdisciplinary Exploration \;(Oxford University Press\, 2016)\, and the editor or co-editor of \;Despite Oneself. Subjectivity and its Secret in Kierkegaard and Levinas \;(Turnshare\, 2008)\, \;Trust\, Sociality\, Selfhood \;(Mohr Siebeck\, 2010)\, \;Atrocities &ndash\; Emotion &ndash\; Self\,(special issue of \;Passions in Context: International Journal for the History and Theory of Emotions\, \;vol. 2\, 2011)\, \;Ethics of In-Visibility: Imago Dei\, Memory\, and Human Dignity in Jewish and Christian Thought \;(Mohr Siebeck\, 2015)\, \;Ethics and Aesthetics of Holocaust Memory \;(special issue of \;Scandinavian Jewish Studies\, \;vol. 28:1\, 2017)\, \;Hermeneutics and Negativism: Existential Ambiguities of Self-Understanding \;(Mohr Siebeck\, 2018)\, and \;The Problem of Evil and Images of (In)Humanity \;(special issue of \;Scandinavian Jewish Studies\, \;vol. 29:1\, 2018). \;Currently\, she is preparing a trilogy entitled \;Vox peregrina: An Ethical\, Theological\, and Psycho(patho)logical Phenomenology of Listening.
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