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Moral change, nostalgia and intelligibility of social values

Autoři: Lukic Vladimir | Cíbik Matej

Rok: 2022

Druh publikace: ostatní - konference, koncert

Strana od-do: nestránkováno

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Jazyk	Název	Abstrakt	Klíčová slova
eng	Moral change, nostalgia and intelligibility of social values	The contemporary public sphere is replete with fantasizing about good old times where “men were men and women were women” and “the world made sense”. And while it is easy to discard these proclamations as empty nostalgia, the motivations and underlying normative facts behind them are not only philosophically complex, but also help explain the broader social importance and political implications of longing for the past. This paper aims to analyse the phenomenon of nostalgia from the perspective of the debate on moral change and moral progress (Moody-Adams 1999; Hämäläinen 2017) . The main ambition is to explain how changing moral frameworks may lead to a crisis of intelligibility in the parts of the population that, for different reasons and to a different degree, were “left behind” by social evolution and do not adopt the prevailing moral outlook(s). The second part of the paper then analyses the ramifications of such nostalgia, and problems and dangers associated with it if it becomes widespread. We claim that, at least in part, nostalgia is a sentiment caused by a loss of meaning within the normative context in which the given person lives their life. This loss of meaning can be prompted by a change of moral framework or vocabulary within the larger scheme of beliefs held in the society. We use two main models of moral change. One is derived from MacIntyre’s theoretical opus and uses his notion of “practice” as an evolving normative system of rules and beliefs (MacIntyre 1981; 1988) . The second uses Michael Freeden’s morphological analysis, showing how the relationships between “core” and “peripheral” concepts change over time in any complex set of normative beliefs (Freeden 1998). Both of these theories are then capable of explaining how, on an individual level, a loss of meaning can occur where the given person gets “out of sync” with the broader social developments. It is in this context that the nostalgic sentiments often appear, and with them the longing for	nostalgia; intelligibility crisis; moral change; social context