MORAL I POVIJEST
MORAL AND HISTORY

Summary/Abstract: The author's ambition was to give a contribution to the critical reconstruction of practical philosophy of German idealists, namely Kant and Hegel. Kant was taken (in the first part) as »a witness for the crown« in the issues of moral and further practical philosophy in general, while Hegel (in the second part) as a »witness« for the philosophy of history. Critical reconstruction indicated that the »supporting« notions of these philosophemes can serve as the pillars of a new ethics. Autonomous will, categoric imperative, conscience, personality, and other notions in Kant, and substantial social morality, cognition, legal state and some other notions in Hegel can become, after transformation, pillars of a new ethics. Transformation, i. e. critical reconstruction refers to their demetaphysication and desupstantisation. In the third part, outlines of a new ethics were given. This is the ethics of discourse, namely the ethics of solidary responsibility developed by Karl Otto Apel and Jürgen Habermas, Through a new principle of moral, the principle of discoursive inter subjectivity, all these elements are brought to a new constellation, devoid of metaphysics and substance. Inclining towards this new ethics, the author points out in the end some of its logical difficulties.

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