Moral Amnesia

Heidegger introduces a concept of Forgetting the object of which is not something past, but something ever present, i. e. what he calls Being.  Similarly, the term 'Moral Amnesia' can signify the treatment of another as a mere Object. For, as has been previously discussed, that attitude is the resultant of a double forgetting--that one is a Subject of Experience only as a member of the human species, and that the other is a Subject as well as an Object, and, hence, is a fellow human.  In other words, Moral Amnesia is constituted by the concomitant dehumanization of self and others.  Thus, as entailing that another is never more than a contingently related Object, Atomism is a manifestation of Moral Amnesia.  So, too, is Heidegger's concept of Ontological Amnesia, which dehumanizes its object.