Moral vertigo, moral panic, and moral disengagement – searching for handy notions to examine the migrant crisis in Europe

• Authors: Zdrenka Marcin
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article is an introductory attempt to find in the vocabulary of ethics and related disciplines such notions that would be able to become descriptive tools for the migrant crisis in Europe. The adopted perspective to tinker on the notions allows to traverse the narrow frames of theoretical ethics and reach for other resources. The paper contains a preliminary analysis of the notions of moral vertigo, moral panic, and moral disengagement, as well as an overview of potential benefits and problems stemming from using those terms.

Keywords

EN

ethical notions; ethics; European migrant crisis; moral disengagement; moral panic; moral vertigo

• Publisher: Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej im. Marii Grzegorzewskiej. Wydawnictwo APS
• Journal: Studies in Global Ethics and Global Education
• Year: 2016
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 109-119

Dates

published

2006-08-25

Contributors

author

Zdrenka Marcin

• Institute of Philosophy, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.5604/23920890.1215498