Published: 2018-01-31

Ethics as Social Utopia. Analysis in the Perspective of the Philosophy of Values

Mariusz Wojewoda

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Mariusz Wojewoda
Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Social Sciences
University of Silesia in Katowice
Poland

Ethics as Social Utopia
An Analysis in the Perspective of the Philosophy of Values

Abstract: The article is devoted to the issue of the presence of the utopian motif in ethics, particularly in ethics based on the philosophy of value. The general point of reference here is the work of the German philosopher Nicolai Hartmann. Normative ethics is intrinsically oriented towards the change of human moral behaviours to an important value (good), especially social good. We are never sure that ethical recommendations will be implemented, therefore, in a way, ethics displays utopian character. However, it does not inhibit formulating ethical programs promoting the change of attitude and behaviour. In the article I distinguish the ethical utopism from utopism. I associate the last one with the classical theories of ideologists of the social life and contemporary specialists in managing organizations. The ethical utopism manifests itself in a certain way of understanding ethical codes as something that institutionally forces attitudes and moral behaviour within a company.

Keywords: philosophy, ethics, applied ethics

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Applied philosophy, applied ethics

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Wojewoda, M. (2018). Ethics as Social Utopia. Analysis in the Perspective of the Philosophy of Values. Er(r)go. Theory - Literature - Culture, 1(36). Retrieved from https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/ERRGO/article/view/5580

ER(R)GO No. 36 (1/2018) - utopias/illusions/longings (guest edited by Beata Wojewoda)

No. 36 (2018)
Published: 2018-09-28


ISSN: 1508-6305
eISSN: 2544-3186
Ikona DOI 10.31261/errgo

Publisher
University of Silesia Press | Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego i Wydawnictwo Naukowe "Śląsk"

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