Under modern order moral behavior often means resisting societal authority

Evidence

What follows is that under modern order the ancient Sophoclean conflict between moral law and the law of society shows no signs of abating. If anything, it tends to become more frequent and more profound – and the odds are shifted in favour of the morality-suppressing societal pressures. On many occasions moral behaviour means taking a stance dubbed and decreed anti-social or subversive by the powers that be and by public opinion (whether outspoken or merely manifested in majority action or non-action). Promotion of moral behaviour in such cases means resistance to societal authority and action aimed at the weakening of its grip. Moral duty has to count on its pristine source: the essential human responsibility for the Other. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 568

Categorization

• XREF: The Sophoclean Antigone theme connects to the Islamophobia module’s imagined community and the construction of the ‘Other’. — connects to: Modern societal organization can weaken moral drives and make immorality more plausible — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 566; Moral responsibility can compel insubordination to socially upheld principles — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 495; Modern society weakens morality through distance, technical responsibility, and segregation — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 567

Related

• Modern society weakens morality through distance, technical responsibility, and segregation (similarity 0.86)
• Modern societal organization can weaken moral drives and make immorality more plausible (similarity 0.83)
• Morality precedes society and society merely manipulates an already-existing moral structure (similarity 0.82)
• Moral responsibility can compel insubordination to socially upheld principles (similarity 0.82)
• Moral behaviour springs from the Other’s powerless demand, not from sanctions (similarity 0.81)
• Moral resistance is personal while immorality requires social production (similarity 0.80)
• Moral capacity arises socially but not from societal institutions (similarity 0.80)
• Sociology mirrored modern society by banishing ethical problematics from its discourse (similarity 0.79)
• Individual moral judgment can remain intact without any supporting social rules (similarity 0.79)
• Sociology reduces morality to derivative products of non-moral social institutions (similarity 0.78)
• Morality dies when social distance replaces proximity, enabling mass murder (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Modern societal organization can weaken moral drives and make immorality more plausible #expands (0.90) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 566
• Moral responsibility can compel insubordination to socially upheld principles #corroborates (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 495
• Modern society weakens morality through distance, technical responsibility, and segregation #expands (0.80) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 567