In this article, I engage the recent debate on transcendence/the transcendental within the anthropology of ethics with the claim that ‘How is it between us?’ is the most fundamental of all ethical questions. In doing so, I contrast relational ethics with ordinary ethics to show that ethics begins with a demand that emerges from a situation within which one finds oneself with others; a demand that pulls one out of oneself to respond in a modality of concern and care for the between where we dwell together. This attuned response is both an ethical and a political one; a response that opens possibilities for being‐together‐otherwise. Such possibilities, I argue throughout, can only begin with a relational ethics. I illustrate this with an ethnographic example from harm reduction practice and anti‐drug war political activity in both New York City and Vancouver, Canada.

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我们之间怎么样 关系伦理与超越

在本文中，我将伦理人类学中关于超越性/先验性的最新辩论纳入讨论范围，声称“我们之间的关系如何？” 是所有道德问题中最基本的问题。在这样做的过程中，我将关系伦理学与普通伦理学进行了对比，以表明伦理学始于一种需求，这种需求源于一种人与他人相处的情况。一种需求，使我们以一种关心和关怀的方式做出回应，以照顾我们在一起的地方。这种协调一致的反应既是道德方面的，也是政治方面的。这种回应为彼此团结提供了可能性。我一直认为，这种可能性只能从关系伦理学开始。