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Solidarity and Moral Imagination in David Greig’s The Events: Ethics in Conversation with Performance

 

Notes

1. David Greig, The Events (performance script, PDF, London, 2014). I would like to thank Dr Jacqueline Bolton whose comments on the earlier draft of this article have been immensely helpful. I am also grateful to Professor Maria Delgado who generously suggested me as a contributor to an earlier discussion of the play and to this issue, and to my friend and colleague Dr Fiona Ellis, Reader in Philosophy at Heythrop College, University of London, for her most helpful questions and remarks on this article.

2. Immanuel Kant, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, trans. and ed. by A. W. Woods (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002), p. 56 [Ak 4:421].

3. Greig, The Events, p. 27.

4. Ibid., p. 5.

5. For more details, see William Alexander Hunter, Systematic and Historical Exposition of Roman Law in the Order of a Code (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 1885), p. 561.

6. See Emile Durkheim, The Division of Labour in the Society, ed. by Steven Lukes and trans. by W. D. Hill (New York: Free Press, 2014).

7. Lawrence Wilde, Global Solidarity (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012) <http://www.questia.com/read/122588294> [accessed 26 August 2015].

8. David Wiggins, ‘Solidarity and the Root of the Ethical’, Tijdschrift voor Filosofie, 71 (2009), 239–69.

9. Ibid., p. 240.

10. Ibid.

11. Greig, The Events, p. 13.

12. Ibid., p. 14.

13. Ibid., p. 13.

14. Ibid., p. 18.

15. Ibid., p. 13.

16. Amartya Sen, ‘Finding Our Common Ground’, New Statesman, 31 July 2006 <http://www.newstatesman.com/node/195577> [accessed 12 March 2015].

17. Ibid.

18. Mark Johnson, Moral Imagination (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993).

19. Ibid., p. 187.

20. Ibid.

21. Ibid.

22. I explore this point in greater detail in Anna Abram, ‘Moral Imagination and the Art of Solidarity’, in Solidarity beyond Borders: Ethics in a Globalising World, ed. by Janusz Salamon (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), pp. 47–64.

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