It occurs to me that Adorno’s ‘Minima Moralia’ was a blog of its time. The book we can dip into preserves 153 separate jottings from the years 1944 through to 1947. It was a dark time, hence Adorno’s dark sub-title: ‘Reflections from Damaged Life.’

The title ‘Minima Moralia’ does intrigue me. Centuries ago some Greeks produced a work called ‘Magna Moralia’, which the Loeb Classics people translated as the ‘Great Ethics’ and published in its ‘Aristotle in twenty-three volumes’ series. Was Adorno thinking of the Greeks and their ‘Magna Moralia’ when he came up with the title ‘Minima Moralia’? More recently (1988), a Romanian writer by the name of Andrei Pleşu published his own ‘Minima Moralia’, which the person who wrote the Pleşu entry for the Wikipedia refers to as ‘The Moral Minimum’.

I think of these things and wonder what is an appropriate ‘moralia’ for our new technological age.