A present look on kantian ethics
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Universidad Industrial de Santander
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Hoy parece arriesgado afirmar que somos kantianos y al mismo tiempo que estamos alejadísimos de Kant y de su siglo. Cuanto más, cuando todavía repercuten las discusiones sobre la posmodernidad y los cambios sociales parecen diluir todo lo sólido en el aire. Sin embargo, pasa más desapercibida la distorsión del legado de la ética kantiana que logra vaciar sus conceptos trascendentales por faltos de pertinencia a nuestra actualidad para así usarlos como comodines en cualquier discusión de moda guiada por intereses sectoriales. En este contexto, me propongo revisitar la ética kantiana desde una perspectiva contemporánea. Comenzaré entonces con una visión panorámica de su concepción que nos lleve en un segundo momento a plantear un actual sentido posible de los conceptos filosóficos, cuando se esbozan como conceptos trascendentales.
Nowadays it looks daring to declare that we are kantians and at the same time that we are quite apart from Kant and his century. Even more, when arguments about posmodernity still have repercussions and social changes seem to melt every solid into the air. However, the distortion of the legacy of kantian ethics happens to be rather unnoticed. It manages to empty its transcendental concepts -because of their lack of pertinence to our present times- in order to be used as multipurpose words in any updated discussion led by sectorial interests,. Considering this context, I intend to return to visit kantian ethics with a contemporary point of view. Then I will begin with an overall view of its conception to suggest a present possible meaning of philosophical concepts when they are considered transcendental concepts.
Nowadays it looks daring to declare that we are kantians and at the same time that we are quite apart from Kant and his century. Even more, when arguments about posmodernity still have repercussions and social changes seem to melt every solid into the air. However, the distortion of the legacy of kantian ethics happens to be rather unnoticed. It manages to empty its transcendental concepts -because of their lack of pertinence to our present times- in order to be used as multipurpose words in any updated discussion led by sectorial interests,. Considering this context, I intend to return to visit kantian ethics with a contemporary point of view. Then I will begin with an overall view of its conception to suggest a present possible meaning of philosophical concepts when they are considered transcendental concepts.
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ética kantiana, dignidad, libertad, fin en sí mismo, deber, Kantian ethics, dignity, freedom, an end in itself, duty