Kantian Ethics and Utopian Thinking

Thomas E. Hill Jr.

doi:10.5281/zenodo.3596159

Thomas Hill University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Estados Unidos

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3596159

Palabras clave: Ética kantiana, Imperativo categórico, Excepciones, Utopías, Pensar utópico

Resumen

La ética de Kant ¿es culpable de pensamiento utópico? Primero se hace una distinción entre los usos potencialmente buenos y malos de los ideales utópicos. Luego se traza lo que parece ser una ruta del ideal político inviable al ideal ético de Kant. Se examinan brevemente tres versiones del imperativo categórico (y sus contrapartes en el discurso moral común) en cuanto a las maneras en que podrían hacer surgir la sospecha de que podrían manifestar o inspirar un pensar utópico malo. Un kantiano dispone en cada uno de estos casos de respuestas para argumentar contra esta sospecha. Se presta atención particular, sin embargo, a la versión que dice «actúa sobre la máxima de un legislador universal de un reino de fines». Las interpretaciones varían, pero el enfoque principal se pone aquí sobre una reconstrucción y un desarrollo contemporáneos de esta idea central. Se tratan brevemente varias objeciones que sugieren que esta idea inspira un pensar utópico malo: que no podemos confiar de que todo el mundo sigue reglas ideales, que hasta gente escrupulosa discrepa en sus juicios morales y que las teorías que dan lugar a excepciones de reglas morales conocidas generan un caos moral de «situación resbalos».

Biografía del autor/a

Thomas Hill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Estados Unidos

THOMAS E. HILL, JR. is Kenan Professor, Emeritus, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His Ph.D. is from Harvard University. His main interests are Kantian ethics and political philosophy. His books are Autonomy and Self–Respect (Cambridge University Press, 1991), Dignity and Practical Reason in Kant’s Moral Theory (Cornell University Press, 1992), Respect, Pluralism, and Justice (Oxford University Press, 2000), Human Welfare and Moral Worth (Oxford University Press, 2002), Virtue, Rules, and Justice (Oxford University Press, 2012). He co–edited (with Arnulf Zweig) Kant: Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals (Oxford University Press, 2002).

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