Moral conservatism, indeterminacy of the human condition and democratic ethics

• Autor(a) principal: Dalbosco, Claudio Almir
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Cenci, Angelo Vitório, Rossetto, Miguel da Silva
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Educação
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/faced/article/view/35895
• topic: moral conservatism; human condition; fallibilism; democratic ethics; conservadorismo moral; condição humana; falibilismo; ética democrática; conservacionismo moral; condición humana; falibilismo; ética democrática

This article argues that the moral conservatism of the « Bolsonarian moral community » is based on a closed and dogmatic notion of the world, as well as on the fundamentalist idea of the human being as a ready essence and on a hierarchical anthropological ontology. From this point, Bernstein’s fallibilist pragmatism is used as a critical reference to authoritarian moral conservatism and the danger of closing the public space it represents. Next, we aim to show that this public and critical way of thinking gives rise to an open and plural notion of the world and to the understanding of the condition of the human being as indeterminate, a condition that contradicts the irrational and excessive desire for omnipotence. Finally, it concludes that the nexus between open world and human fragility, within the framework of a democratic ethic, creates the conditions conducive to ethical and formative experiences.