The Moral act of Understanding

“Responsibility houses a primary notion of ‘response’, of ‘answerability. To be responsible in respect of the primary notion of semantic trust is… to accept the obligation of response though… in an almost paradoxical freedom. It is to answer and to answer for. Responsible response, answering answerability make of the process of understanding a moral act… Truth … was answerability to the meaning of the world.”

George Steiner

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