What connects cognitive and emotional intelligence? What drives the extraordinary human interest in sharing and caring? Morna Finnegan draws on the polysemic Mbendjele and Ju/’hoan terms “Ekila” and “N/om” respectively to propose that morality is fundamentally a corporeal element: it must be viscerally experienced in order to remain live. This means that in order to survive, moral systems must remain in flux. The moment they settle, taking either the shape of divine right or of the secular State, they tend to assume a fixed shape, with walls, laws and a punitive social and emotional economy. They become, in other words, inherently anti-social and anti-freedom, the primary function being to privatise and administer power.
Morna will be talking LIVE in the UCL Anthropology Dept
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