There is no question that Homo sapiens is the dominant species on the planet. I argue that with this dominance comes a moral responsibility. In formulating his famous “categorical imperative,” the grandfather of modern nonconsequential duty-ethics Immanuel Kant proclaimed, “Act as to treat humanity, whether in thine own person or in that of any other, […]
THE INTERNET AS GOD
Voltair once wrote, “If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.” Deep thinking people have been asking if there are any good reasons for believing that God is an existent being and not a human invention. It is written in the Bible that God created man in his own image […]
AUDIOVISUAL AND/OR VISUAL
It is indeed correct to assume that we live in an audiovisual world. What is more, the audiovisual culture is ubiquitous. Whether it is an art piece in a modern art museum such as the white canvases or simply going to a restaurant for dinner where our culinary experience will have a piano player augmenting […]
THE PHOTOGRAPH & MORALITY
In her excellent book, On Photography, Susan Sontag has managed to give us two things to ponder; a history of photography as the closest replication of reality and a deeper examination of power of photography, which is not lost on anyone, I gather.Thinking about this, I am reminded of Richard Rorty’s assertion of the role […]
THE VERY IDEA OF CONSCIENCE
As I was rewriting an essay on ethics of social media I was once again reminded of Erich Fromm’s thesis on the very notion of “conscience” in Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics, a book he wrote back in 1947. I find many of Fromm’s ideas and theoretical treatments of the […]