Islamic moral responsibility is perpetually torn between eschatology and sociology

Evidence

Responsibility being the existential mode of the human subject, morality is the primary structure of intersubjective relation in its most pristine form, unaffected by any non-moral factors (like interest, calculation of benefit, rational search for optimal solutions, or surrender to coercion). The substance of morality being a duty towards the other (as distinct from an obligation), and a duty which precedes all interestedness – the roots of morality reach well beneath societal arrangements, like structures of domination or culture. Societal processes start when the structure of morality (tantamount to intersubjectivity) is already there. Morality is not a product of society. Morality is something society manipulates – exploits, re-directs, jams. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 514 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Morality precedes society and society merely manipulates an already-existing moral structure — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 514

Broader Connections

• Morality precedes society and society merely manipulates an already-existing moral structure #complicates (0.78) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 514