Moral Luck, Photojournalism, and Pornography
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"Moral Luck, Photojournalism, and Pornography"[1] (1998) is a paper by Belgian philosopher Luc Bovens published in the Journal of Value Inquiry. It deals with the suggestiveness/immediacy dichotomy in wartime photojournalism and pornography.
- " There are interesting reflections on the practice of photojournalism to be found in the novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being by the Czech writer Milan Kundera and the film Before the Rain by the Macedonian director Milcho Manchevski. I will take these works as a starting point for my own ruminations."
Excerpts:
- "Leontius in Plato's Republic is both tempted and repelled to look at the corpses. When he gives in to the temptation and allows his eyes “to feast on this lovely sight,” the seeing occurs in mental anguish, which obstructs the possibility that he will develop a phenomenal connection with the suffering. There can be no Einlebung in the presence of shame. Pornography and photojournalism suffer from the same ineffectiveness".
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