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Fatigue: obstacle or necessary counterpart to moral attention?


ABC Religion & Ethics
Rebecca Rozelle-Stone
Updated
Wed 14 Apr 2021, 8:33am
Following French philosopher Simone Weil (1909–1943), rather than regarding moral fatigue as an enemy of attentiveness, what if we consider it as an assistant in our receptivity to the world? (Wikimedia Commons)
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As a trained philosopher and someone who was always suspicious of facile narratives and quick answers to nagging questions, one of my earliest lessons was that seeking truth compels me to go into uncomfortable mental and emotional, if not literal, spaces. Much as I would desire it, logical consistency, facts, and truth do not often conform to my preferences or to what is convenient for me. Genuine interest in truth necessitates a kind of vigilance to others and to the world in its complexity, and it requires that we attend to evidence, irregularities, nuance, and of course, the often brutal and terrifying events, injustices, and sufferings that comprise r ....

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