SURVIVAL AND ALTRUISM by José Corral

Author:José Corral [Doerr, Anthony]
Language: spa
Format: epub
Tags: Poemario
Publisher: Letras de Autor
Published: 2017-06-30T00:00:00+00:00

Note: From a layman’s point of view, I feel some experts have perhaps made the mistake of considering mankind (people governed by ethical norms) as “creators” of all of these norms. They might have assumed that human ethics arises from the rational nature of man, and have tried to deduce man’s “what should be done” from what man himself thinks and decides.

I feel that this idea is excessively anthropomorphic, conferring humankind with absolute freedom and capacity of knowledge and thereby negating the possibility of the influence or precept of another, whether a god, or nature itself. It is possible that this independence has hindered them from seeing, or from admitting,, the basic idea and the possibility of an “external” precept. This is why Kant addresses only “goodwill” in itself, leaving the categorical imperative void of content (Kant: 2005, 73). We find the same in Brentano (2013, paragraph 10). I would say the problem arose in Greece and began to deteriorate further during the Enlightenment. End of note.

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