“We need to remain alert to what happens to the body when it is mediatised. Too often, the mediatised body is an anaesthetised body. I would be the last person to argue that the body signifies at some basic level that precedes or transcends its cultural inscriptions. Nevertheless, there is an ethical imperative not to conflate the body with its representations and mediations, but to remember that there is an actual body there somewhere, experiencing the consequences of what is being done to it.” NeedsPersonsDoneBodyHappensWould BeLastsRememberLevelsConsequenceArguingEthicalNeverthelessRepresentationImperativesBeing DoneMediationInscriptions Author:Philip Auslander
“The confusion between temperament and character has had serious consequences for ethical theory. Preferences with regard to differences in temperament are mere matters of subjective taste. But differences in character are ethically of the most fundamental importance.” MatterCharacterDifferencesSeriousTheoryTasteConsequenceImportanceRegardFundamentalsMereConfusionEthicalPreferenceSubjectiveTemperament Book:Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics
“We face a fundamental question which can be described as both ethical and ecological. How can accelerated development be prevented from turning against man? How can one prevent disasters that destroy the environment and threaten all forms of life, and how can the negative consequences that have already occurred be remedied?” MenFacesFormEnvironmentDevelopmentConsequenceNegativeFundamentalsEnvironmentalDisasterEthicalStewardshipEcologicalNegative Consequences Author:Pope John Paul II
“The uncertain and imprecise way of constructing a drawing is sometimes a model of how to construct meaning... The ethical and moral questions...in our heads seem to rise to the surface as a consequence of the process” WaySometimesSeemsProcessMoralModelsConsequenceSurfaceDrawingEthicalUncertainConstructs Author:William Kentridge
“One of the main reasons I'm vegan is because I'm ethically lazy. My friends who eat meat or who eat eggs have to sometimes wrestle with the ethical consequences of their actions. By being vegan, I take the easy way out.” WaySometimesReasonActionEasyMy FriendsConsequenceMeatLazyEggsEthicalVeganEasy Way Author:Moby
“The erosion of agency has consequences for our politics. As a result of all this, the fundamental ethical challenge of the anthropocene is the recovery of agency, or alternatively to come to terms with its loss and to understand how to go on.” TermChallengesLossResultsGoes OnConsequenceFundamentalsRecoveryAgencyEthicalErosion Author:Dale Jamieson
“It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.” PeopleIfsHumansHelpingSeemsActionMovingPossibilityPaperEthicsConsequenceRealmsEthicalMultipleHuman Actions Author:Zadie Smith
“The church at the time was much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself, and also took into consideration the ethical and social consequences of Galileo's doctrine. Its verdict against Galileo was rational and just.” ReasonReligionSocialChurchAtheismConsequenceDoctrineRationalFaithfulConsiderationEthicalVerdict Author:Paul Feyerabend