ABSTRACT
This chapter presents some closing thoughts of key concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book establishes the need to think about the relationship between security and ethics. McDonald examines the weakness of existing ethical conceptions of security which revolve around the nation-state, international society or the individual as referent objects. For instance, Jabri argues that far from producing anything resembling security, as in some notion of safety from harm, the logic of security is implicated in authoritarianism, violence and exclusion. Orthogonal, a term originating in Euclidean geometry, refers in this case to a rotation in consciousness by which conventional reality is situated in a much larger three-dimensional space. The book examines the notion of an orthogonal rotation, and discusses the ethical significance of the conceptual overlap between Wendt's quantum consciousness making further connections to ancient systems of thought which have elaborated on an ethics of compassion.
