The Poverty of Ethics Matar Anat
The Poverty of Ethics Matar Anat Why the left should reclaim ethics and morality for itselfThe Poverty of Ethics stands the usual moral-political dichotomy on its head. It is, rather, the conceptual…
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The Poverty of Ethics Matar Anat
Why the left should reclaim ethics and morality for itselfThe Poverty of Ethics stands the usual moral-political dichotomy on its head. It is, rather, the conceptual primacy of political discourse that rescues ethics from its poverty.Our ethical convictions receive their substance from historical narratives, political analyses, empirical facts, literary-educational models, political activity and personal experience. It argues that moral principles do not in fact underlie or inform political decisions.
Clarifying and justifying this seemingly odd statement is the main purpose of this essay. Yet morality, essentially, doesn't leave room for relativity: not every ethos deserves to be titles 'moral'.Hence the book argues further, it is the left ethos, as it has evolved over years, which forms the basis for ethics: morality is left-wing!