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Moral Breakdown &

Moral Balancing

Moral Breakdown

A moral narrative on the struggle with today's mass consumerism

Marjolein de Koning

Introduction

Introduction

- The moral Breakdown (Zigon 2009)

- Everyday moral comfort (Van Roekel 2018)

- Ordinary ethics (Lambek 2015; Das 2009)

Narrative

"I don't understand"

The Moral Breakdown

- Heidegger

ready-to-hand > present-to-hand

- Ethical dilemma

- Being good vs. being happy

Conscious reasoning

"The need to consciously consider or reason about what one must do only arises in moments that shake one out of the everydayness of being moral" (Zigon 2009: 133)

Moral Breakdown

After the Breakdown

After the breakdown

- Ongoing ethical performance

- Moral Comfort (Van Roekel 2018)

- Moral balancing (Johnston et al 2011)

- Ethical consumption (Starr 2009)

- Ordinary ethics (Lambek 2015; Das 2009)

"Home"

= To "be at home in a familiar world, a daily existence that is always in some way familiar"

"Home"

Ethical Consumption

"People purchasing and using products and resources according not only to the personal pleasures and values they provide but also to ideas of what is right and good, versus wrong and bad, in a moral sense" (Starr 2009: 916)

Ordinary Ethics

"The moral is a dimension of everyday life" (Das 2009)

"Our life is intrinsically ethical because we are always subject to criteria, to judgment and evaluation (...) and subject to our own self-evaluative, self-interpresting processes." (Lambek 2015)

Conclusion

Conclusion

Our lives are intrinsically ethical ... (Lambek 2015)

‘For our understanding of human social and cultural life, striving matters’ (Rogers 2009: 32)

Bibliography

Bibliography

  • Das, Veena. 2012. “Ordinary Ethics.” In A Companion to Moral Anthropology, edited by Didier Fassin, 133-149. London: John Wiley and Sons.
  • Johnston, Josee, Michelle Szabo, and Alexandra Rodney. "Good food, good people: Understanding the cultural repertoire of ethical eating." Journal of consumer culture 11, no. 3 (2011): 293-318.
  • Lambek, Michael. 2015. “Living as if it mattered”. In Four Lectures on Ethics: Anthropological Perspectives, edited by Michael Lambek, Veena Das, Didier Fassin and Webb Keane, 5-51. Chicago: HAU Books.
  • Starr, Martha A. "The social economics of ethical consumption: Theoretical considerations and empirical evidence." The Journal of Socio-Economics 38, no. 6 (2009): 916-925.
  • Van Roekel, Eva. 2018. “Traumatic Home: Argentinian Victimhood and the Everyday Moral Comfort of Torture.” Ethos 46, no. 4: 537-556.
  • Zigon, Jarrett. 2007. “Moral Breakdown and the Ethical Demand: A Theoretical Framework for an Anthropology of Moralities.” Anthropological Theory 7, no. 2: 131-150.
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