I: Morality and Phenomenology -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Science, Morality, and Phenomenology -- Notes -- II: The Ego and the Other in a Pairing Relation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Empathic Perception and the Constitution of the Ego and the Other in Cartesian Meditations -- 3. The Sphere of Ownness -- 4. The Reciprocal Relation of Pairing: Some Problems -- 5. Theunissen and the Question Concerning Pairing -- Notes -- III: Instinct and the Presence of the Other -- 1. The Case for Instinct -- 2. The Other as Unity -- 3. Re-Thinking Infantile Intentionality -- 4. Limitations from a Husserlian Standpoint -- Notes -- IV: Moral Categoriality & Moral Being -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The History of Moral Theory -- 3. Categoriality and Foundations -- 4. Moral Categoriality -- 5. Morality as Choice v. Mode of Being -- 6. Problem: The Unthinking Actor -- 7. Problem: The Non-Judgmental Actor -- 8. Conclusion -- Notes -- V: Phenomenological Communitarianism -- 1. Introduction: The Descriptive and the Normative -- 2. Communitarian Theory in General: Three Problems -- 3. The "Disappearing-Self" Problem -- 4. The "Intersubjective Good" Problem -- 5. The "Constitution of a Community" Problem -- 6. The State of our Union, the Union of our State -- Notes -- VI: Non-Human Life and the Boundaries of Community -- 1. Introduction: A Persian Fable -- 2. Initial Human Pairing with Animals -- 3. "Animal Phenomenology" and the Possibility of Community Generated Without Humans -- 4. The Gracious Act of Attention Late-in-Coming -- 5. Community Through Narrative -- 6. Humans and Animals in a Second-Order Community -- 7. Conclusion: The Common Good as Moral Foundation -- Notes.