ECOLOGY: Must the limitations of democracy bear the responsibility for our collective climate defeat? What crime does the Norwegian state commit, for example, when it allows the mining company Nordic Mining to dump the toxic substance SIBX in the Førdefjord? in Odin Lysaker's theory of democracy, love and care become political, and ecology existential.
ETHICS: 'Secondary experiences' train us to empathize with people who are in situations we ourselves have no experience with. Martha Nussbaum believes that fiction such as Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky can do this.