Conversion of Consciousness as Principle of Morality

Autores/as

  • Konrad Utz Universidade Federal do Ceará

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-6746.2016.3.21114

Palabras clave:

Aristotle. Friendship. Kant. Normativity. Morality.

Resumen

Kant shows that a fundamental theory of normativity and morality can give neither an explanation nor an explication of normativity, but can only articulate and render explicit its origin. It can do so by indicating the place or topos and the turn or trope of its originating. According to Kant, the topos of normativity is the will qua practical reason and its trope is the general, typically instrumental use of this reason, i.e. reflection. The trope of the origin of morality is autonomy, i.e. practical reason turning on itself and thus becoming pure practical reason, thereby establishing its own form as law: the categorical imperative. Consequently, fundamental ethics serves two functions (if it is indeed successful): formally, it provides evidence for the originality or authenticity of morality; materially, it gives a criteriological principle for the content of morality. The article argues that Kant was right in his view of the foundation of ethics, but was wrong in the manner in which he met the requirements thus established. The topos of normativity and, consequently, of morality cannot be reason, but must be consciousness or, more precisely, (actual) knowledge de se; and its fundamental trope cannot be reflection (and then autonomy), but must be what can be described as a conversion of consciousness. This conversion can be identified with philein in the sense of Aristotle. It has four different aspects: desire, cognition, benevolence, and recognition. When philein is reciprocal and lived, philia ensues. Friendship (in the broad sense of Aristotle) is then described as the topos of the origin of Normativity and Morality.

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Biografía del autor/a

Konrad Utz, Universidade Federal do Ceará

Konrad Utz possui mestrado em Teologia Católica - Universität Tübingen (1993) e doutorado em Filosofia - Universität Tübingen (1997). Atualmente é Professor Associado da Universidade Federal do Ceará. Tem experiência na área de Filosofia, com ênfase em Idealismo Alemão, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: dialética, necessidade e acaso, amizade; Hegel (especialmente: Ciência da Lógica), Aristóteles (Filosofia Prática, teoria da amizade).

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Publicado

2017-01-05

Cómo citar

Utz, K. (2017). Conversion of Consciousness as Principle of Morality. Veritas (Porto Alegre), 61(3), 578–602. https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-6746.2016.3.21114