Modern Myths and Medical Consumerism by Antonio Lanfranchi & Jonathan Hunt

Author:Antonio Lanfranchi & Jonathan Hunt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)

Notes

1 Popper 1934–1959.

2 Foucault 1963.

3 Nancy 2000.

4 As opposed to being deterministically individualized – a term used by Michel Foucault – through external systemic factors.

5 Cf. Neumann 1948 and Levi 1947. In the first text, written in 1943, the author shows how an authentic ethical position is possible at an individual level if one makes a constant effort to differentiate one’s own consciousness from the regressive influence of the group. The tendency of the old ethics, derived from the traditional monotheisms is that of judging the evil and eliminating it without any mediation, condemning it with an unreflecting action that admits of no doubts. This will lead to the identification and ‘expulsion’ of a culprit according to the logic of the scapegoat, to redeem the group and restore it to a state of original purity. Traditional dogmatic ethics denies the existence of evil and conceives of it as an absence of the good (privatio boni). Furthermore, Levi (p. 9):

Many, both individuals and peoples, may come to believe, more or less consciously, that ‘every foreigner is an enemy’. For the most part this conviction lies in the depths of minds like a latent infection; it manifests itself only in periodic, uncoordinated acts, and is not the origin of a system of thought. But when this happens, when the unexpressed dogma becomes the major premise of a syllogism, then the concentration camp is at the end of the chain.

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