Description
Evil is not confined to war or situations in which people act under extreme duress. More often, it appears in everyday insensitivity to the suffering of others, in the inability or refusal to understand them, and in the casual turning away of one’s ethical gaze. Zygmunt Bauman and Leonidas Donskis analyse the moral blindness characteristic of contemporary societies through the concept of adiaphora: placing certain acts or categories of people outside the sphere of moral obligations and evaluation. This attitude of indifference creates a kind of moral numbness. In a hurried life shaped by ratings wars, box-office returns, gadgets, gossip and sensational information, people are at serious risk of losing their sensitivity to the plight of others. This probing examination of the fate of our moral sensibilities explores the profound changes silently shaping life in the contemporary liquid-modern world. The book is in English.
Information
Language: English
Publication date: March 1, 2013
Manufacturer: Folio, spol.s r.o.
Genres: Philosophy in english, Books, Foreign language books, English literature, Non-fiction literature in english
Type: Paperback book
Pages: 218
ISBN/EAN: 9780745662756