Apuntes para una nueva construcción ética.

Abstract

The text that is presented in the following lines wants to state two considerations about the topic on the ethical. The first one, begins from the idea that at the present time is emerging a new and necessary ethical reflection for the present macro-context, which reveals a growing limitation and degradation of the directives and fundamental concepts of the traditional ethics, (about these concepts of traditional ethics won’t be done a detailed exposition, but they are presented at the beginning of the text for a better comprehension of the thematic, -the concept of “deber” will be specially treated-), but at the sometime, it will show new terms that have become obligatory when we talk about this problem.

In the second part, the text tries to show how the new concepts, are being handled in the “meso” and micro contexts within a vague discourse of free comprehension and utilization that have taken them to lose relevance, since, it has transformed them in common words that have penetrated in our culture more with a functional use that with the rigorous form that makes possible to give meaning to experiences, and that way found a steady auto reflection of the thinking about its concepts. However, it is considered that “commitment” is a word that still has a clear meaning in our language and this is why, it can offer us an alternative to foresee an ethical proposal that is in the “meso” context.

Eventhough, it is correct to think that the word “commitment” is far a way from becoming a philosophical fundamental concept, this text pretends to begin the explore the possibility – in the future - of announce an ethical proposal that has as its central axis the concept of “commitment”.