KANTIAN'S ETHICS AND THE POSSIBILITY OF ALTRUISM (THOMAS NAGEL)

Authors

  • Jürgen Stolzenberg Universität Halle
  • Tradutor: Hans Christian Klotz UFG

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/phi.v14i2.10850

Keywords:

Morality, Altruism, Self-consciousness.

Abstract

The present article discusses the relation of Th. Nagel’s ethics of altruism with kantian ethics. According to Nagel himself, his position resembles that of Kant in two respects: it defends the thesis of the autonomy of moral motivation, and it bases moral on a determinate self-conception of persons. However, differently from Kant, the principle of Nagel’s ethics is just the modest presupposition that persons essentially understand themselves as being one among a plurality of other persons. Starting from the nagelian argument in The Possibility of Altruism (1970), but contemplating also Nagel’s more recent position in The Last Word (1999), it is argued that in order to defend his conception of a rational ethics in a convincing way, Nagel has to approximate himself more to the kantian foundation of ethics than he wants to admit.

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Author Biography

Tradutor: Hans Christian Klotz, UFG

Possui graduação em Filosofia - Ludwig Maximilian Universität München (1986) e doutorado em Filosofia - Ludwig Maximilian Universität München (1990). Atualmente é professor adjunto da Universidade Federal de Goiás e colaborador do curso de pós-graduação da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. Tem experiência na área de Filosofia, com ênfase em Kant e o Idealismo Alemão, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: kant, fichte, Hegel, filosofia transcendental e subjetividade. As linhas de pesquisa são Filosofia Transcendental (UFSM) e Ontologia e Metafísica (UFG).

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Published

2010-08-11

How to Cite

STOLZENBERG, Jürgen; KLOTZ, Tradutor: Hans Christian. KANTIAN’S ETHICS AND THE POSSIBILITY OF ALTRUISM (THOMAS NAGEL). Philósophos a journal of philosophy, Goiânia, v. 14, n. 2, p. 183–208, 2010. DOI: 10.5216/phi.v14i2.10850. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/philosophos/article/view/10850. Acesso em: 6 dec. 2025.

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 2 (2009): Subjetividade e Vontade

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