Moral Behavior: Freedom, Sociability, and Human Dignity
**Basis of Moral Behavior: Freedom and Sociability**
Human behavior differs from animal behavior. Animals act on instincts, genetically determined through evolution, making them perfectly adapted to their environment. Stimuli trigger specific behaviors in animals, leading to similar behaviors across the same species. Humans, however, are not fixed to any specific environment. Through intelligence and technical skills, humans adapt the environment to their needs, building bridges, houses, etc.
Stimuli
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Ethical Model and Political Action
Achieving an ethical model requires effective political and social action. This involves establishing universally acceptable norms and values, coordinating moral heteronomy and personal autonomy, and creating a shared project with duties imposed on us. The pattern of life that follows universally desirable individual duties must include at least:
- Recognition of duties prior to legislation: This includes core values such as life, liberty, and equality.
- Rejection of
Radical Ontology: Life, Hermeneutics, and Historical Existence
Radical Ontology
The philosophy is not supposed to know why you have to start asking itself. This must point Metaphilosophy called and ordered to overcome the skepticism by setting the primary reality of which party and which makes sense in any other reality. Philosophical knowledge is ontology. Philosophy is not knowledge that progresses cumulatively from a philosophical advance. The principle is a progressive shrinkage to the following principles. The mission is to radicalize the philosophy of
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What is an Ethical Theory?
Ethics is the philosophical reflection on morality.
- Study the origin and coexistence of different moral codes.
- Suggests where should guide our conduct.
- Analyze the consequences of our moral actions.
- It helps us to develop a moral dilemma if
- Fundamental moral action although this does not cause problems.
The ethical theories are the rationale that explains the moral behavior of individuals. These represent an effort of thought to understand the human condition and offer a consistent
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Science and Reality
In the early twenty-first century, science has generally accepted an image of what we call reality. But the discoveries and achievements of science open the door to ever more complex puzzles. In antiquity, everything we call knowledge was attributed to philosophy, considered the ultimate form of rational knowledge. But scientific knowledge led many to follow an independent path from philosophy. This knowledge became specialized sciences, and the sum of all of them gives a comprehensive
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Aristotle: Human Beings, Indissoluble Unity of Body and Soul
In contrast to the theory of the world of ideas of his teacher Plato, Aristotle argued that the sensible world only exists, in which all beings are individual and are composed of matter and form (hilemorphic theory).
What is Humankind?
The body (matter) and soul (form). The soul is immaterial and is the essence of humankind. The body and soul form a substantially inseparable unity and cannot exist separately. Therefore, if the body is mortal,
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