Ancient ethics and the notion of moral conscience
In one of the suggestive essays collected in his posthumous book : Études de philosophie ancienne et de philosophie moderne, Victor Brochard wanted to establish between ancient and modern morality a decided and radical opposition, whose features he delineated as follows (1). The idea of duty and obl...
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I10-R344-article-109032023-09-07T13:16:32Z Ancient ethics and the notion of moral conscience La ética antigua y la noción de conciencia moral Mandolfo, Rodolfo Filosofía antigua Filosofía del renacimiento Filosofía marxista Ancient philosophy Renaissance philosophy Marxist philosophy In one of the suggestive essays collected in his posthumous book : Études de philosophie ancienne et de philosophie moderne, Victor Brochard wanted to establish between ancient and modern morality a decided and radical opposition, whose features he delineated as follows (1). The idea of duty and obligation (he said), which seems fundamental to the moderns in the definition of ethics, is completely absent in ancient ethics: neither the Greeks nor the Latins had a suitable word to express it. In their morals there was no ''imperative,'' but only an ''optative,'' for the end sought by all philosophical schools, or ''supreme good,'' was happiness, which can only be the object of desire, but not of command. Nor, therefore (Brochard added), could there be: an appeal to the moral conscience, or to an interior law : the gaze of the Greeks has never turned towards their interiority to seek the norm of their conduct, but towards the exterior, towards nature, to achieve conformity with it. En uno de los sugestivos ensayos recogidos en su libro póstumo : Études de philosophie ancienne et de philosophie moderne, Víctor Brochard quería establecer entre la moral antigua y la moderna una oposición decidida y radical, cuyos rasgos delineaba de la manera siguiente (1). La idea de deber y de obligación (decía) que parece fundamental a los modernos en la definición de la ética, queda ausente por completo en la ética antigua: ni griegos ni latinos han tenido una palabra apta para expresarla. En su moral no había un "imperativo", sino solamente un "optativo", pues el fin buscado por todas las escuelas filosóficas, o ''sumo bien'', era la felicidad, que sólo puede ser objeto de deseo, pero no de mando. Tampoco, por consiguiente (agregaba Brochard), podía haber: un llamado a la conciencia moral, o a una ley interior : la mirada de los griegos nunca se ha vuelto hacia su interioridad para buscar la norma de su conducta, sino hacia lo exterior, hacia la naturaleza, para lograr la conformidad con ella. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba 1944-09-01 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/REUNC/article/view/10903 Revista de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba; Vol. 31 Núm. 4 (1944): Septiembre-Octubre; 1155-1183 0370-7687 spa https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/REUNC/article/view/10903/11490 Derechos de autor 1944 Universidad Nacional de Córdoba https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 |
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In one of the suggestive essays collected in his posthumous book : Études de philosophie ancienne et de philosophie moderne, Victor Brochard wanted to establish between ancient and modern morality a decided and radical opposition, whose features he delineated as follows (1). The idea of duty and obligation (he said), which seems fundamental to the moderns in the definition of ethics, is completely absent in ancient ethics: neither the Greeks nor the Latins had a suitable word to express it. In their morals there was no ''imperative,'' but only an ''optative,'' for the end sought by all philosophical schools, or ''supreme good,'' was happiness, which can only be the object of desire, but not of command. Nor, therefore (Brochard added), could there be: an appeal to the moral conscience, or to an interior law : the gaze of the Greeks has never turned towards their interiority to seek the norm of their conduct, but towards the exterior, towards nature, to achieve conformity with it. |
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