Synopsis
Promirational Ethics asks what it means to continue seeing another person as a subject rather than allowing familiarity, utility, projection, or convenience to flatten them into a fixed object. Its name combines forward movement, regard, and preservation. The practice is not to preserve someone as they once were, but to maintain attention to who they are and are becoming.
The problem it responds to
Relationships tend toward perceptual reduction. Habits form, projections harden, institutions simplify people into categories, and the Other becomes easier to manage precisely because less of their subjectivity is being perceived.
What the work contributes
- Names sustained regard as active ethical labor rather than passive awareness.
- Connects recognition, wonder, and continuity across time.
- Provides a practice-oriented extension of Continuity Ethics.
Development
- Developed from Continuity Ethics and the recognition dynamics in Relational Ontometry.
- Intended for intimate, professional, political, and institutional application.
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