Anselm Kiefer, Lilith, 1987-9 (Tate Modern).Theodor Adorno writes:We can probably say that moral que
Anselm Kiefer, Lilith, 1987-9 (Tate Modern).Theodor Adorno writes:We can probably say that moral questions have always arisen when moral norms of behaviour have ceased to be self-evident and unquestioned in the life of the community. Thus morality as a theoretical discipline… arises at the precise moment… when the customs and usages that obtain and have been generally accepted within the life of a people have lost their immediate authority. Hegel’s assertion that “the owl of Minerva only spreads its wings with the falling of dusk” applies nowhere more aptly than to the reflection on moral questions. Plato’s philosophy was the first of which it could be said that its entire philosophical interest was dominated by moral questions in the sense in which we have been speaking of them. And it is no accident that its historical emergence should have coincided with the disintegration of the Athenian polis. -- source link
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