"A Distress that Cannot Be Forgotten": Imagination, Injury, and Moral Vulnerability
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216275%3A25210%2F20%3A39917816" target="_blank" >RIV/00216275:25210/20:39917816 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.pdcnet.org/philtoday/content/philtoday_2020_0064_0003_0637_0650" target="_blank" >https://www.pdcnet.org/philtoday/content/philtoday_2020_0064_0003_0637_0650</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/philtoday2020107351" target="_blank" >10.5840/philtoday2020107351</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
"A Distress that Cannot Be Forgotten": Imagination, Injury, and Moral Vulnerability
Original language description
Using the case of the Bosnian War during the 1990s, and drawing on Iris Murdoch's philosophy; this paper develops an understanding of moral vulnerability; where one's ability to imagine certain ways of being ethical can be transformed through the extreme violence of war and genocide. there is a vulnerability to moral injury through violence that is grounded in the way persons imagine themselves and the world. Beginning with the wartime diaries of Zlatko Dizdarevic, a survivor of the Bosnian wars of the 1990s, the paper turns to different understandings of moral injury, as well as Margaret Urban Walker's understanding of "moral vulnerability." I argue these approaches do not capture an important dimension in Dizdarevic's Witness. The paper then turns to Iris Murdoch's philosophy to begin to articulate and account for this dimension and sketch an understanding of moral vulnerability distinct from current moral injury discourses.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60302 - Ethics (except ethics related to specific subfields)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF15_003%2F0000425" target="_blank" >EF15_003/0000425: Centre for Ethics</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Philosophy Today
ISSN
0031-8256
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
64
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
14
Pages from-to
637-650
UT code for WoS article
000608022400006
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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