Le sujet moral ébranlé

• Autor(a) principal: Valadier, Paul
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: fra
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/didaskalia.2007.1849

The building of the moral subject seems to be difficult in our democratic societies. The so called moral autonomy is far from being a given there. People can always adopt a behavior of under age. Besides, the will is conditioned by affections it does not control. There are difficulties of an external order in addition. The constant flow of information generates conformism. Besides, the contradictory solicitations throw the subject into confusion and lead him to entrust himself to his own impulses. In this cultural scenery, the North American communitarians come forward with a solution for the problem of the subject. They maintain that tradition and narrativity have a role in his structuring process. But they forget that their proposal encourages isolation in a particular social belonging and considers this one as a refuge promoting a too easy identity. In fact, there is only one way to build the moral subject: to convoke him permanently to himself, in confronting the different realities that life presents to him.