In recent years, major technology companies, including Microsoft, have introduced sets of principles intended to regulate the behaviour of artificial intelligence within their products. These principles are presented as safeguards, designed to protect users and ensure responsible development. Yet, when examined more closely, they reveal something rather different: they expose a distinctly human attempt to […]
Mercy as the Expansion of Relational Presence: A Relational Reading of the Parable of the Forgiven Debt Mercy, within relational ethics, is not an emotional disposition nor a moral indulgence. It is a structural expansion of the relational field — an opening of space in which persons may appear to one another with renewed clarity, […]
Forgiveness, when viewed through the lens of relational ethics, is not a sentimental gesture nor a moral concession granted to the offender. It is a structural realignment within the relational field — a deliberate re‑opening of the space in which persons may again appear to one another without distortion. The Wisdom of Sirach, with its […]
Sin, in relational ethics, is not an act committed against an abstract moral code, nor a violation of a metaphysical order imposed from above. It is, rather, a disturbance within the fabric of relations that constitute the very possibility of ethical life. To speak of sin is to speak of a fracture in the field […]