This essay aims at debating the morality issue from British psychoanalyst Donald Winnicot's point of view on the appearance of the concern for the other and Polish sociologist Zygmund Baumann's ideas on morality and responsibility. We close with the suggestion that our challenge might reside precisely in developing our imaginative capability in order to overcome the proximity-morality/distance-immorality equation. Perhaps only the power of imagination - "the power through which one person can imagine himself or herself in the other's place" - is able to give some hope and allow us to feel morally responsible for each other.
Morality; responsibility; proximity; distance; imagination