Abstract

An era which is widely known as ‘post’, where tension between very personal self-fulfillment and a possible coexistence, is questioned from the point of view of today’s moral pluralism. This work initiates in the ethical dilemma put forward in the film The Man Next-door, and goes on to reflect on the need to strike an always conflictive happy medium between aspirations of a good life (what each one considers to be their happiness) and the imperative of the norm (duty binds us all). Appealing to the thought of Paul Ricoeur allows us to understand that the tragic dimension of an action is present in every human event and it urges us to deliberate on a possible articulation of reciprocity between the esteem of the Self and attentiveness by the summoning Other.

Key Words: Postmodernism | moral pluralism | individualism | coexistence | conflict | reciprocity