Philosophisch-ethische Rezensionen
(Erscheinungsdatum der rezensierten Bücher: 20. und 21. Jahrhundert)
Jonathan Sacks, the importance of face to face interaction
To Sacks something is missing when human interaction is no longer face to face.
The whole affective dimension that makes us living drops out. In his mind true
communication involves personal presence, it creates relationship. Real
interpersonal friendship needs intimacy, privacy and time investment. Social
media further in Sacks opinion a bad shift from "We" to "I" on which suffers
our time. Morality for him is about engaging with the raw human vulnerabilities
of others instead of engagement with glamering, illusory, polished social media
presentation. The last leads to an unlearning of morality and leads more to
narcissism than to genuine personal growth. The moral life, to him, is born,
lives and has its being in real space relationship.