Deber, amor propio, dolor: claves hermenéuticas para una ética antropológica (segunda 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 actsas a corrective device of self-love. In fact, the concept of moral duty is key tounderstand the process of separation between morality and happiness, whichis 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 subjectaffected by pathological sensitivity compared with moral duty nor self-loveare enough for the foundation of a realistic ethic that is based on an anthropologicalpoint of view, in other words, an ethic that fits into what man is inhis own personal reality and in his relationship with nature.To support this thesis, the work is structured in four parts: analysis of Aristotelianethics from the paradigm of self-love; historical explanation of the reasonswhy the concept of self-love ends up going into crisis; exposure of themain features that Kant understands as specific to morality; and finally, therecovery test of the particular individual’s concept of nature as well as the reconciliationof the subject with himself in it through the notion of pain, whichis conceived as the foundation of the distinction between person and nature.

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