Totalitarianism and Moral Indignation

diacritics ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernesto Laclau
Keyword(s):  
Moral Indignation

Schooling and the Politics of Ethics: Beyond Liberal and Conservative Discourses

1987 ◽  
Vol 169 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry A. Giroux
Keyword(s):  
Ethics Education ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Moral Vision ◽  
Moral Indignation ◽  
American Society

One of the major struggles for control currently being waged in American society is around the issue of schooling and moral values. However, radical educators have effectively removed themselves from this debate by substituting the discourse of moral indignation for a theory of ethics. In part, this has meant that they have been unable either to ground their own political projects and views of schooling in a moral vision or to effectively challenge the retrograde and formalistic views of ethics and schooling that have been put forth by various conservatives and liberals. This article examines the inadequacy of mainstream conservative and liberal views in this area and suggests alternative categories and interests around which a critical discourse linking ethics, education, and politics can be developed.

Anarchism, Violence and Civil Disorder

Worldview ◽  
1968 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 6-12
Author(s):  
Paul W. Blackstock
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Social Order ◽  
New Left ◽  
Western World ◽  
The Political ◽  
Robinson Crusoe ◽  
Moral Indignation ◽  
The World ◽  
Civil Disorder ◽  
Sensitive Individual

The Liberal's Dilemma and the Anarchism of Youth. The sensitive individual in the Western world has nearly always been impelled to protest the injustices of. the political and social order in which he finds himself. For example, very early in life Stephen Spender observed that "to be born is to be a Robinson Crusoe, cast up by elemental powers upon an island," that "all men are not free to share what nature offers here … are not permitted to explore the world into which they are born." Throughout their lives they are "sealed into leaden slums as into living tombs." To this general awareness of the plight of the poor, the New Left in this country has added a sense of burning moral indignation that the colored minority has also been sealed into ghettos and deprived of civil rights and human dignity.

Rethinking Moral Economy

2001 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Clay Arnold
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
American West ◽  
Moral Economy ◽  
Water Politics ◽  
Moral Indignation ◽  
The Third ◽  
Political Analysis ◽  
Economic Incorporation ◽  
Social Goods ◽  
Moral Economic

I establish three closely related claims. The first two are interpretive, the third theoretical. (1) The prevailing conception of moral economy in political science, presupposed by opponents as well as advocates, rests too heavily on the distinction between nonmarket and market-based societies. (2) The prevailing conception of moral economy reduces to the unduly narrow claim that economic incorporation of a nonmarket people is the basis for the moral indignation that leads to resistance and rebellion. (3) Reconceptualizing moral economy in terms of social goods reveals additional grounds for politically significant moral indignation and permits moral-economic political analysis of a larger set of cases and phenomena. Water politics in the arid American West illustrate the power of a conception of moral economy based on social goods.

“The Workingman's Bible”: Robert Blatchford's Merrie England, Radical Literacy, and the Making of Debsian Socialism, 1895–1900

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 326-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason D. Martinek
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Social System ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Economic Institutions ◽  
Moral Indignation ◽  
Missionary Zeal ◽  
The People ◽  
Adequate Food

Turn-of-the-century socialists radicalized literacy. Unlike middle-class reformers, whose desire for mass literacy arose from the need for a hardworking, compliant workforce, socialists used it to undermine capitalism. Through their printed culture of dissent, they not only sought to transform individual lives, but an entire social system. They took up the task of using literacy to convert workers with a missionary zeal. Moral indignation fueled their crusade. In a nation of such wealth, they asked, why was it that so many industrious people did not have enough to provide themselves and their families with adequate food, clothing, and shelter? Their answer was that America's political and economic institutions had been corrupted by the nation's monied power. In their minds, only an enlightened, educated working-class could challenge the prerogatives of capital and make these institutions fully socially accountable to the people.

Empathy in Orphaned Children

1984 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirja Kalliopuska
Keyword(s):  
Orphaned Children ◽  
Moral Indignation

Empathy was studied by giving Feshbach and Roe's Affective Situation Test for Empathy for 10 orphaned children and 10 controls, aged 4 to 5 yr. old. No significant differences between groups were found on empathy, egocentricity, longing for parents, rejection and denial, moral indignation, of constructive solutions.

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