Description
The ecological crisis makes the Anthropocene aporetic in several ways. The crisis is all but impossible to localise, it seems to be everywhere and nowhere simultaneously; each one of us is to blame for the crisis although it is entirely indifference to what individuals do; the crisis is simultaneously already past and yet to come – significant parts of it are irreversible yet its worst consequences are not yet here. Thus, the crisis eludes human attempts at finding a direction for our lives. In the Anthropocene, we are all aporos, lost, without direction. One of the victims of the aporias of our time is self-cultivation. Self-cultivation is arguably a central component in every ethical system conceived in Eastern wisdom traditions or Western philosophy. Yet, as we have argued elsewhere, the aporias of the Anthropocene break down the traditional concepts of self-cultivation.In this paper, we propose to think self-cultivation anew at the intersection of the concepts of a life and care. The Deleuzean concept of a life is intended to capture the fact that the lives we lead as individuals are imbued with a life we share with other beings. However, it is also intended to capture the impersonal and indefinite nature of this shared life, which makes confronting it a challenging affair – an encounter with otherness in ourselves. We utilize care, on the other hand, to describe the attitude or attunement we feel is necessary to take towards the impersonal life within and without ourselves in the context of the Anthropocene. Thus, we extend care to cover both care
of the self and care of others. We suggest that the reciprocal attunement to care of others and care of the self marks the moral compass needed to orient self-cultivation in an age of dis-orientation.
| Aikajakso | 25 marrask. 2022 |
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| Tapahtuman otsikko | Kasvatustieteen päivät 2022 |
| Tapahtuman tyyppi | Conference |
| Sijainti | Oulu, SuomiNäytä kartalla |