Not Buying It: Opting out, Vaccination and Morality

• Authors: Rastislav Dinić

Title variants

PL

Ja tego nie kupuję. Wycofanie, szczepienia i moralność

Abstracts

PL

Atykuł rozpoczyna się od opisania problemu relatywizmu naiwnego, charakterystycznego dla studentów pierwszego roku, z którym zwykle spotykają się nauczyciele etyki na zajęciach wprowadzających. Pokazuję, że ten dobrze znany, opisany i dokładnie przeanalizowany problem mógł przesłonić pojawienie się innego problemu – wycofania – oraz że stało się to szczególnie widoczne podczas pandemii COVID-19. Nawiązując do takich autorów, jak Albert O. Hirschman, Wendy Brown, a zwłaszcza Bonnie Honig, przekonuję, że to nowe zjawisko najlepiej traktować jako symptom neoliberalnej racjonalności „kolonizującej” domenę moralności. Dalej sugeruję, że powinniśmy postrzegać moralność jako to, co Bonnie Honig nazywa rzeczą publiczną, i pokrótce rozważam pewne implikacje tej propozycji. Na koniec proponuję kilka możliwych sposobów radzenia sobie z problemem wycofania z moralności.

EN

The paper starts with describing the problem of “naive” or “freshman” relativism that is typically encountered by ethics teachers in introductory ethics classes. I then go on to show that this well-known problem, described and thoroughly analysed by several authors, might have obscured the emergence of a new and different problem – opting out – and that this has become particularly obvious during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on authors such as Albert O. Hirschman, Wendy Brown and especially Bonnie Honig, I go on to argue that this new phenomenon is best thought of as a symptom of neoliberal rationality “colonizing” the domain of morality. I further suggest that we should view morality as what Bonnie Honig defines as a public thing, and I briefly consider some implications of this proposal. Finally, I suggest some possible ways of dealing with the problem of opting out of morality.

Keywords

EN

naive relativism; ethics; vaccination; COVID-19 pandemic; voice; opting-out; Judith Andre; Simon Blackburn; Albert O. Hirschman; Bonnie Honig

PL

relatywizm naiwny; etyka; pandemia COVID-19; szczepienia; głos; wycofanie; Judith Andre; Simon Blackburn; Albert O. Hirschman; Bonnie Honig

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Slawistyki PAN
• Journal: Slavia Meridionalis
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 22

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Rastislav Dinić

• Универзитет у Нишу [University of Niš], Ниш [Niš]

• https://orcid.org/0000000151888204

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Identifiers

DOI

10.11649/sm.2744

Biblioteka Nauki

33300305