Abstract
Ethics is prima facie concerned with what one does or should do. Philosophically, it belongs to an area distinct from fundamental inquiries into what is (ontology) or how we know (epistemology). Yet at certain junctures in intellectual history ethics becomes more than that. It becomes essential to interpreting all realms of philosophy and of life. Ethics comes to be understood as fundamental to any disclosure of the world and to the very consciousness of self. From this perspective, what things are and how we know them cannot even be considered until an ethical relation has been taken up vis-a-vis others and perhaps even vis-avis an absolute or divine Other. Cosmology, or the representation of the universe, and the very foundation of knowing become irreducibly ethical matters and must necessarily be grasped in ethical terms. Ethics in this sense is more than one branch of knowledge among others; it enfolds in embryo a comprehensive vision of the world and its conditions of possibility. What does it mean to have an ethical vision of human existence and relatedness
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