Risvolto
Unde malum from where does evil come? That is the question that
has plagued humankind ever since Eve, seduced by the serpent, tempted
Adam to taste the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and
evil. Throughout history the awareness of good and evil has always been
linked to the awareness of choice and to the freedom and responsibility
to choose this is what makes us human. But the responsibility to choose
is a burden that weighs heavily on our shoulders, and the temptation to
hand this over to someone else be they a demagogue or a scientist who
claims to trace everything back to our genes is a tempting illusion,
like the paradise in which humans have at last been relieved of the
moral responsibility for their actions.
In the second series of
their conversations Zygmunt Bauman and Stanislaw Obirek reflect on the
life challenges confronted by the denizens of the fragmented,
individualized society of consumers and the form taken in such a society
by the fundamental aspects of the human condition - such as human
responsibility for the choice between good and evil, self-formation and
self-assertion, the need for recognition or the call to empathy, mutual
respect, human dignity and tolerance.
Bauman, la speranza della Buona notiziaLORENZO FAZZINI Avvenire 12 novembre 2015
Nessun commento:
Posta un commento