GÂNDIREA ETICĂ: O PERSPECTIVĂ CRITICCONSTRUCTIVĂ
The Ethical Thinking: a Critical-Constructive Perspective

Summary/Abstract: This study sets out to briefly analyze the process of forming ethical thought’s conceptual language. Consequently, we distinguish philosophizing in general from philosophizing per se. By defining the terms of “morality”, “morals” and “ethics” we are considering a metaphysical stage of ethics, be it an onto-theological, rationalist-ontological or transcendental- critical one. Once the project of enlightenment had fallen and scientific theories of evolution appeared, i.e. at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, a positive foundation for ethics has been sought, hence the apparition of biologism, psychologism and sociologism. These positive foundations of ethics are all reductionist. Ethics needs a double foundation, which is philosophical and scientific in the same time. Transmodernism, through unity in discontinuity, through transdisciplinarity in what regards scientific knowledge and metaethics, through the dissociation between judgments of existence, of value and ethics, will help avouch bioethics, the ethics of communication and of character.

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