Some suggestions in ethics by Bernard Bosanquet

By Bernard Bosanquet

Английский философ, представитель неогегельянства Б. Бозанкет анализирует структуру этики, пытаясь изложить этическую систему непротиворечиво и с практической точки зрения – так, чтобы этика смогла стать руководством к действительной жизни. Исследуются понятия добра и зла, ценности вообще, социальное измерение этики, понятие совести.

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The artist spent the first part of his life fleeing Iraq after the first Gulf War in 1991, living for many years thereafter in refugee camps. A contemporary story then of the psychic trauma of war. As the artist stated: “most of the time we don’t live in the places we live in. We don’t exist in the city we exist in. ”18 Perhaps refugee camps are without a sense of place, with the body and mind floating to other places, other times. In this case, the only thing that could anchor the body in time and place is a continuous, mundane visual record of life’s experience.

As the artist stated: “most of the time we don’t live in the places we live in. We don’t exist in the city we exist in. ”18 Perhaps refugee camps are without a sense of place, with the body and mind floating to other places, other times. In this case, the only thing that could anchor the body in time and place is a continuous, mundane visual record of life’s experience. Wafaa Bilal could be considered, in fact, a posthuman Cartesian: I record, therefore I am. It is curious that at the same time as the artist struggled to work through trauma by an all-seeing, always online embedded camera in the back of his head, his students had a very different reaction, accusing the artist’s project of invading their privacy.

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