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- Title
Regarding the Pain of the Others. Do We Need Teleethics?
- Authors
Bytniewski, Paweł
- Abstract
I borrow part of the title of my paper from Susan Sontag. In 2003, a year before her death, Susan Sontag published an essay entitled Regarding the Pain of Others. There she takes up the subject of the moral significance of presenting the views of war, violent human death exposed to the lenses of cameras. Her approach to the contemporary issue of mediatisation through the image of the sight of human suffering provokes a question: Do we need teleethics today, the ethics of remote moral relations? Using the method of comparative analysis in the area of cultural determinants of ethics, I draw attention to the contemporary challenges that the culture of late modernity imposes on the morality of everyday life. My thesis is this: The images of human suffering provided by the media reveal the imperfection of our morality. As moral subjects, we are not prepared to respond to the suffering of human beings absent from face-to-face relationships. So, we need teleethics. The paper is devoted to this issue.
- Subjects
SONTAG, Susan, 1933-2004; LIQUID modernity; VIOLENT deaths; HUMAN beings; PHOTOGRAPHIC lenses; COMPARATIVE method; MODERNITY
- Publication
Filosofija, Sociologija, 2023, Vol 34, Issue 3, p228
- ISSN
0235-7186
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.6001/fil-soc.2023.34.3.2