ABSTRACT
The importance of concepts to ethical life is not too difficult to grasp. We owe to concepts like “justice,” “rights,” “duty,” “virtue,” “good,” “responsibility,” and “obligation” our very capacity for ethical judgement. And yet the work of clarifying and codifying the scope and significance of these terms is the source of another danger-the calculation of our responsibility, in which the ethical as an openness to the incalculable is extinguished.
