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The moral nature of compromise


 Text in progress (2.8.2013)

At the height of protest in Athens against the austerity measures, with things threatening to go way out of control, Katerina Anghelaki Rooke asked in one of the discussion rounds whether a compromise has to be always negative, morally speaking faul? She implied that there is also a reason for compromise. Insofar as Nelson Mandela has been praised for knowing what his negotiation partner was prepared to give, what he could not, this let him make such compromises which formed over time a peaceful path of transition from the apartheid system to a rule of law. Critics would say today that rule has been increasingly compromised but in the political nature of things a compromise is necessary if it is not to end in the victorious taking all and the loser left completely out in the cold.

'Imperishable water': the role of the concept in the poem by Katerina anghelaki Rooke called 'Destiny also flows'

In her poem 'destiny flows', there appears the term 'imperishable water'. Haroula Hadjinicolaou felt so much inspired by this particular poem, that she made it into the motto for the entire action in Rhodes.

Katerina Anghelaki Rooke realized as well during the discussion that all of us had become one family, the family of fear. She explained after having listened to all the discussions that not only we human beings are not going to be around for ever, but earth as well is in jeopardy. Till now one thought, she said, after death we would be buried and lie in the earth which shall exist forever, bit if this no longer holds, then what does this mean in terms of existence, especially if mankind continues along this path of destruction and ignores such warnings as climate change?

 

 

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