Pensar una ética para la emancipación
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Rev. de Inv. Educ.
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El ensayo reflexiona sobre una ética que supere las relaciones sociales de la sociedad capitalista. Tal hecho no sería posible sin antes desmontar el ente que formaliza esas relaciones: el Estado. El Estado, al mostrarse como la forma más racional de organización, ha formalizado un tipo de relaciones sociales y con ella una idea de lo justo, lo ético, lo correcto; pero las relaciones sociales que formaliza no son relaciones humanas, son relaciones materiales de personas. Bajo ese parámetro el ensayo plantea que la ética no puede apelar a los "sentimientos más nobles" del ser humano, en todo caso debe posicionarnos en el punto de vista de que el capitalismo está destruyendo la vida y cualquier ética no debe conservar este tipo de orden; en todo caso, debe ser una ética de afirmación de vida y esa afirmación sólo puede venir de las contradicciones que el sistema-mundo-moderno nos presenta en la realidad, de ahí su capacidad de interpelación a la realidad; entonces una ética que permita pensar la emancipación no puede ser planteada solamente como discurso anticapitalista sino debe venir acompañada por un discurso que desmonte la modernidad, el Estado y su razón.
The essay is the reflection about the possibility of ethics that go beyond the social relations of the capitalist society. It states the impossibility of this ethics without dismounting removing the body that formalizes these relationships, that is, the state. The state shows the characteristic of being the most rational form of organization and has established a certain kind of social relations and with it a sense of fairness, ethic, and rectitude, but social relations are formalized not as human relations but as material relationships between people. Under this understanding, the article states that ethics can not just call for the "more noble feeling" of human beings, in any case it must take position about the fact that capitalism is destroying life and that ethics should not support any such order of things, in any case, it has to become an affirmation of life. Such argument can only come from the contradictions that the modern world-system shows in reality, thus challenging reality itself, Ethics that encourage emancipation cannot be only an issue of anti-capitalist agendas, it has to be accompanied by the atatement of dismounting the modern thought, the state and its reason.
The essay is the reflection about the possibility of ethics that go beyond the social relations of the capitalist society. It states the impossibility of this ethics without dismounting removing the body that formalizes these relationships, that is, the state. The state shows the characteristic of being the most rational form of organization and has established a certain kind of social relations and with it a sense of fairness, ethic, and rectitude, but social relations are formalized not as human relations but as material relationships between people. Under this understanding, the article states that ethics can not just call for the "more noble feeling" of human beings, in any case it must take position about the fact that capitalism is destroying life and that ethics should not support any such order of things, in any case, it has to become an affirmation of life. Such argument can only come from the contradictions that the modern world-system shows in reality, thus challenging reality itself, Ethics that encourage emancipation cannot be only an issue of anti-capitalist agendas, it has to be accompanied by the atatement of dismounting the modern thought, the state and its reason.
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Vol. 3, No. 3