Deber, amor propio, dolor: claves hermenéuticas para una ética antropológica (primera parte)
Duty, self-love, pain: hermeneutical keys of an anthropological ethics

Summary/Abstract: This article is focused on Kant’s notion of moral duty, but only when it acts as a corrective device of self-love. In fact, the concept of moral duty is key to understand the process of separation between morality and happiness, which is regarded as typical of the modern conceptions included in moral life. The main thesis of the paper is that neither contempt of oneself as a subject affected by pathological sensitivity compared with moral duty nor self-love are enough for the foundation of a realistic ethic that is based on an anthropological point of view, in other words, an ethic that fits into what man is in his own personal reality and in his relationship with nature. To support this thesis, the work is structured in four parts: analysis of Aristotelian ethics from the paradigm of self-love; historical explanation of the reasons why the concept of self-love ends up going into crisis; exposure of the main features that Kant understands as specific to morality; and finally, the recovery test of the particular individual’s concept of nature as well as the reconciliation of the subject with himself in it through the notion of pain, which is conceived as the foundation of the distinction between person and nature.

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