Justification of ethics and man's own reality.

Authors

  • Juan de Dios Vial L. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31619/caledu.n15.456

Abstract

The philosophical discourse of reason and the autonomy of the will both as moral action principles seem to be dismantled by the critic of the XIX century prophets: Marx, Nietzsche and Freud. Nevertheless, the moral praxis exercised by common and daily usage of men has preserved a force that demands theoretical justification not to be left blindfolded and without direction. Two fundamental ideas of the Aristotelian ethics make this possible: the idea of election of something that should be chosen by itself and what Aristotle called the "good" (spoudaios) or "prudent" (phronimos) man.

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Published

2001-06-07