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- Title
La ética de la virtud más allá de las modas.
- Authors
MARCOS, ALFREDO
- Abstract
In recent years, Virtue Ethics (VE) has gained an eminent presence in the philosophical arena, which is, in my opinion, a very positive fact. If it runs now any risk, it is to become another intellectual fad, a trending topic as successful today as ephemeral for tomorrow. I make here three proposals in order to avoid this risk. To begin with, it is essential to highlight the historical continuity of VE (section 2): it is premodern by its roots, it reinterprets and integrates modern moral philosophy and it brings light to postmodern moral debates. To continue, VE has to breathe a certain metaphysical atmosphere in order to avoid an early suffocation (section 3). This atmosphere is composed of a prudential epistemology, a pluralistic ontology of being, and an anthropology of the person and of the human nature. Finally, the flourishing of VE depends on the contribution it can make to the current moral debates. In this sense, I aim at showing that VE can enlighten us on a currently essential issue, that of anthropotechnics (section 4). Keywords: human nature, person, pluralistic ontology, postmodernity, prudential epistemology, virtue ethics.
- Subjects
ETHICS; MODERN philosophy; VIRTUE ethics; HUMAN behavior; THEORY of knowledge
- Publication
Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia, 2020, Vol 76, Issue 1, p25
- ISSN
0870-5283
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17990/RPF/2020_760_1_0025