Sixteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Abstract

Social thinker Zygmunt Bauman identified in the lack of questioning itself one of the main troubles of liquid modern times. It is one of the main obstacles to see the lack of justice, inequity, and human suffering. It makes people remain indifferent to it. But indifference is also a face of immorality, in the sense it denies the other in their humanity. The current crisis is making us all suffer, irrespective of social status. It is also forcing us all to consider this reality we tend to forget: there are suffering people in the world we live in. Identifying injustice, suffering its fate, maybe seeing a positive face, in the sense it can make us all more compassionate, more responsible towards the others in need. According to Bauman’s thought, justice means freedom, and freedom means being able to choose and having the means to put into action one’s choice. Therefore, sharing goods, and searching the common good in the pubic sphere can reduce inequity and increase our level of justice. It means also changing for better our way of living-in-the-world. Solidarity consists in this attitude, and is necessarily to build truly human bonds, and justice, in the public space. This crisis has given us also several examples of people responsible towards the other enough to give their own lives. They make us hope that overcoming inequity is still possible.