Transcending Modernity with Relational Thinking by Pierpaolo Donati

Author:Pierpaolo Donati [Donati, Pierpaolo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780367705138
Google: d83FzgEACAAJ
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2021-01-15T03:55:51+00:00

Summary

Morality is a social fact, but it is treated as being a problem of the individual or the system, or a mix of the two. Current mainstream sociologies explain changes of morality in terms of opposing accounts. For some, morality evolves by systemic emergence. For others, morality evolves through an emergence of subjectivity. If, until a few years ago, these two versions were seen as antithetical (Durkheim's collective conscience vs Weber's individual subjectivity, in particular “charisma”), today structure and agency seem to operate in a synergic manner. My explanation is that this happens because a lib/lab configuration of morality prevails, which intrinsically contains a double bind (the double bind of the system constraint on individuals to be morally “free”: see Bateson 1972: 271–278).

The theses arguing for morality as “systemic emergence” maintain that morality becomes a product of functional systems that, in as much as they proceed only through communications and are (ontologically) only communication, de-normativise society, including human beings, in a system that includes animals, plants, and every other entity, obviously including the entire artificial world of technology.

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