Fife Ethical Writings
(Umberto Eco)
Umberto Eco analyzes with great lucidity fife subjects of great importance: why war has become such an inevitable thing in our society, what characteristics are there to define italian fascism seen as a collage of political and philosophical ideas (a swarm of contradictions), what changes there were in the media when television appeared, the odds of a layman's moral existing today and the tolerance or intolerance towards migration, migration which is bound to transform Europe in the following years into a multiracial continent. The author claims that certain ethical issues have become clearer for him once he considered matters of a semantic nature: the universal semantics lead to a notion that proves common to all cultures, namely the one that refers to the spatial positioning of our body. Whence the concepts of positions based on spatial coordinates, evincing the fact that sensations themselves are universal (just like the concept of compulsion). These rights of the body are for Eco the starting point for Ethics. Its dimensions become clear only when the Other one appears and changes thtough its relations with the Other.
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