ABSTRACT
Anything that is said as a final say in a discussion on the ever-evolving moral landscape may appear to be an exaggeration or even a totalitarian claim. The ‘values’ and ‘truths’ that are accepted as final and absolute in the moral realm may prove to be inadequate in a new situation. Therefore, while concluding a quest for an accommodative approach to morality and advocating a critical, open and discursive approach towards moral questions, emphasis must be laid on the cultivation of moral perception, the different narratives of life, like stories, folklores, poetry and art in improving the ‘moral ecology’ of the human universe. Such an approach also includes a personal quest for selfhood along with the inputs that religions, cultures and secular moral theoretical understanding can offer. Ethics, in this understanding, is context-sensitive and open-ended and inspires us to engage with the profound complexities of making moral decisions. This is because every situation is unique and human nature is dynamic. Though a human being is a free agent, he begins to learn what is right and wrong from an external command and then acquires his legislative power through the capacity of his ever-evolving moral perception. Therefore, both Kantian and Kierkegaardian emphasis on the uniqueness of a situation and dynamic character of human nature needs to be understood with the help of the metaphor of parallax.
