Ethical inquiry must start from the historically conditioned constitution of subjects.

Evidence

The point of my strategic and heuristic use of continuism is to emphasize that, if the ethical subject is not taken to be without historical, cultural, or linguistic limits, then a study of its constitution(s) is the place to begin ethical investigations. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 1236

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Ethics abolishes itself when authenticity is found to depend on history — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 551; Intellectuals must distinguish durable instrumental values from transient philosophical ones inherited from the past. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1609; Philosophical truths are historically conditioned yet avoid relativism. (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Ethics abolishes itself when authenticity is found to depend on history #expands (0.85) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 551
• Philosophical truths are historically conditioned yet avoid relativism. #expands (0.85)
• Intellectuals must distinguish durable instrumental values from transient philosophical ones inherited from the past. #expands (0.75) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1609