ABSTRACT
This chapter begind with the reflection on ethics. The ethics of proximity is not a school of philosophical thought with an established tradition. Lacan in his Seminar VII on ethics questions the whole project of ‘love thy neighbour’ and wonders whether a human being is actually capable of an act of altruistic love at all, therefore appearing to be at complete loggerheads with Levinasian ideals of the infinite responsibility for the other. The issue of ethics versus desire in Lacan is a complex matter. Ethics and morals are connected to each other and to unethical and immoral. Hegel sees ethics as involving immediate action, whereas morality is reflexive.
