Morality or Moralism, An Exercice in Sensitization

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2010

« Morality or Moralism, An Exercice in Sentization » (translated by Patrick Camilier) in Common Knowledge, Vol. 16, n°2, pp. 311-330 (with responses by S. Mulhall, T. Zamir, M. Tamen & M. Rowlands pp. 331-360) Spring 2010 (avec Emilie Hache) (traduction de 106).

Morale ou moralisme ? Un exercice de sensibilisation

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In Raisons Politiques, n° 34 mai 2009, pp. 143-166 (avec Emilie Hache)

Abstract

The ANT argument has often been suspected of dubious moral grounds ; the accusation is made by those who use a roughly kantian definition of what it is to occupy a moral upper ground. By following the contrasts between four different texts (Comte-Sponville, Kant, Serres et Lovelock), the paper explores what an ‘objective morality’ would look like and how to compare the Kantian axiology with the ANT’s possible definition of an object-oriented-morality. Especially important is the semiotic definition of the moral intensity of a text, this intensity bein defined by the ability for someone to feel responsible by responding to the calling of more beings than the ones expected from the moralist tradition.