2009
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Françoise Schwab, « Vladimir Jankélévitch. Les paradoxes d'une éthique résistante », Revue d'éthique et de théologie morale, ID : 10670/1.ogl1wp
Vladimir Jankélévitch. The paradoxes of a resilient ethicMorals and metaphysical reflection are the two axes of V. Jankélévitch’s thinking. Morals are a generous gift. They oblige us to takes sides on borderline issues. Each act is irrefragable. The Shoah fractured Jankélévitch’s thinking, which rose up against the extermination to the point of rupture with Germany. Morals are the prerequisite of philosophical questioning. If necessary, they can dictate absolute refusal in the exercise of the virtue of courage, even at the risk of one’s life, even if one has to become “impure”. It is a question of choosing the right moment, at the heart of the harrowing interior dispute between good and evil. The capacity for indignation is a powerful engine of moral action, even if it leads us to reject false morals. To forgive is the supreme moral commandment, but Jankélévitch maintains that we cannot forgive executioners because love would then be greater than evil: atrocities must not be trivialized. It is written that the living must not discard their responsibility in relation to political regimes.