Who Is My Neighbour? Understanding Indifference as a Vice

Bibliographic Data

ID5800908
AuthorsHallvard Lillehammer (0000-0003-3775-1396, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume89
Issue4
Pages559-579
Publication date2014-07-28
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePhilosophy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0031-8191 • E-ISSN: 1469-817X
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/s003181911400028x
OpenAlexW2092883982
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited22

Indifference is often described as a vice. Yet who is indifferent; to what; and in what way is poorly understood, and frequently subject to controversy and confusion. This paper proposes a framework for the interpretation and analysis of ethically problematic forms of indifference in terms of how different states of indifference can be either more or less dynamic, or more or less sensitive to the nature and state of their object

Confusion · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Object (grammar) · Psychoanalysis · State (computer science) · Subject (documents) · Computer Science · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology

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