Title: Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity
Description: Evil is not confined to war or to circumstances in which people are acting under extreme duress. Today it more frequently reveals itself in the everyday insensitivity to the suffering of others, in the inability or refusal to understand them and in the casual turning away of one&rsquo;s ethical gaze. Evil and moral blindness lurk in what we take as normality and in the triviality and banality of everyday life, and not just in the abnormal and exceptional cases. The distinctive kind of moral blindness that characterizes our societies...
Subjects: Social ethics, Emotions, Indifferentism (Religion), Apathy, Adiaphora, Indifferentism (religion)