Literatures, ethics and arts | Lethica

Wondering how to ensure a better living, Ethics lay at the core of many contemporary situations: from social justice issues to key economical, ecological and cultural challenges, or from international relations to technological developments in health and life sciences.

• How do the arts and literatures inform and reconfigure past and contemporary ethical debates?
• How do they contribute to publicize their main issues and thus foster general public understanding?
• How do they reveal continuities or, on the contrary, significant breaks and differences between various cultures and historical periods on crucial ethical debates?

Lethica intends to address pressing societal challenges, in particular those related to its four selected topics:

• the spread of a sorting paradigm (“triage”) or the codified processes meant to rank, select, prioritise or neglect patients and/or eligible profiles among targeted populations, from military medicine to emergency medicine, humanitarian aid and in a increasing number of economical, social and geopolitical relations;
• the proliferation and acceleration of moral revolutions, namely the mutations of moral feelings and behaviors which occur as a consequence of globalization and mediatization ;
• the public and democratic call for transparency, or the necessity for broadcasting or retaining informations, decisions, actions, which tend to be constrained by political strategies and economic interests,
• the expansion of new paradigms and ethical issues (vulnerability, durability) regarding new situations and conditions for human and animal life (bioethics, animal ethics).