SECURITY STUDIES AND EUROPEAN SOCIETY, pages: 195 - 206, 2019

The Human Security Discourse: Balancing Deontology with Teleology

Abstract: The human security discourse has mostly been concerned with a deontological approach to security. In this paper I consider a more basic foundation for human security, where the response to insecurities of the other is mediated by a critical hermeneutical ethics. In this way the paper aims to supplement the standard conception of human security, so as to take account of the phenomenological treatments of an ethics of action, and to give more prominence to the hermeneutical appropriation of the language of evil, of the unfamiliar other and the teleological quest for justice.