KANTIAN'S ETHICS AND THE POSSIBILITY OF ALTRUISM (THOMAS NAGEL) A ÉTICA KANTIANA E A POSSIBILIDADE DO ALTRUÍSMO (THOMAS NAGEL)

The present article discusses the relation of Th. Nagel’s ethics of altruism with kantian ethics. According to Nagel himself, his position resembles that of Kant in two respects: it defends the thesis of the autonomy of moral motivation, and it bases moral on a determinate self-conception of persons...

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Main Authors: Jürgen Stolzenberg, Tradutor: Hans Christian Klotz
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Universidade Federal de Goiás 2010-12-01
Series:Philósophos : Revista de Filosofia
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Online Access:http://www.revistas.ufg.br/index.php/philosophos/article/view/10850
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Summary:The present article discusses the relation of Th. Nagel’s ethics of altruism with kantian ethics. According to Nagel himself, his position resembles that of Kant in two respects: it defends the thesis of the autonomy of moral motivation, and it bases moral on a determinate self-conception of persons. However, differently from Kant, the principle of Nagel’s ethics is just the modest presupposition that persons essentially understand themselves as being one among a plurality of other persons. Starting from the nagelian argument in &lt;em&gt;The Possibility of Altruism &lt;/em&gt;(1970), but contemplating also Nagel’s more recent position in &lt;em&gt;The Last Word &lt;/em&gt;(1999), it is argued that in order to defend his conception of a rational ethics in a convincing way, Nagel has to approximate himself more to the kantian foundation of ethics than he wants to admit.<br>O presente artigo discute a rela&amp;ccedil;&amp;atilde;o da &amp;eacute;tica do altru&amp;iacute;smo, defendida por Thomas Nagel, com a &amp;eacute;tica kantiana. Segundo o pr&amp;oacute;prio Nagel, sua posi&amp;ccedil;&amp;atilde;o &amp;eacute; semelhante &amp;agrave; de Kant sob dois aspectos: ela defende a tese da autonomia da motiva&amp;ccedil;&amp;atilde;o moral, e ela funda a moral numa determinada autoconcep&amp;ccedil;&amp;atilde;o da pessoa. No entanto, diferentemente de Kant, o princ&amp;iacute;pio da &amp;eacute;tica nageliana &amp;eacute; apenas o pressuposto modesto de que uma pessoa essencialmente considera a si mesma como sendo uma numa pluralidade de pessoas. Partindo do argumento nageliano em &lt;em&gt;The Possibility of Altru&amp;iacute;smo &lt;/em&gt;(1970), mas contemplando tamb&amp;eacute;m a posi&amp;ccedil;&amp;atilde;o mais recente de Nagel em &lt;em&gt;The Last Word&lt;/em&gt; (1999), argumenta-se que Nagel s&amp;oacute; pode defender sua concep&amp;ccedil;&amp;atilde;o de uma &amp;eacute;tica racional de modo convincente, se ele se aproximar mais da fundamenta&amp;ccedil;&amp;atilde;o kantiana da &amp;eacute;tica do que ele pretende.
ISSN:1982-2928