In his book Moral issues (Routledge) Roberta De Monticelli defines the ethical skepticism, "the belief that there is no truth or falsity concerning value judgments, and do not consequently there is no objectivity on trial practice. " Expressions of this skepticism is the "neosofistiche of the twentieth century," including lists of subjectivism, relativism and nihilism.
The author considers that this position has a majority in the current philosophy, but that should be fought. "Fighting practical skepticism is to defend the seriousness of our moral experience. E '(...) defend the thesis that our experience in the area of \u200b\u200bmorality is fallible, yes, but precisely because it is open to the truth. (...) These are, if able to withstand the critical scrutiny, our anger and our anger, our guilt and our regret, our admiration and our contempt, our gratitude and our hope. I'm not vain things, 'qualia' subjective feelings or moods without any real reason. Nothing is in vain - even when it is wrong to appear, a cowardice, injustice, a servile gesture - if what appears resistant to critical scrutiny, appears what appeared to be. "
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malpractice, according to the author that has deep roots (the analysis starts from the anti-virtues supported by the G. Ricordi - servility, duplicity, family, distrust, cunning, contempt for the next ...), identified in a line of Fabrizio Corona, "Just look," the quintessence of the new Italian immoral situation. The indifference to crime, "the arts of bondage (or Spain, provided that if Franza magna) are not at all put in place to protect them from power, but to participate. The servants become masters not the servants to stop doing.." Today's news in Italy, compared to the situation cinqucentesca, is "the way in which covert injustice constituent that is the use of public resources to promote our own interests 'particulari'. (...) The new statute of lie is the absolute indifference to any evidence to the contrary : the persuasive power of the false, based solely on its repetition and suppression of dissenting voices. (...) If you just look, everything seems in vain : the appearance has nothing to do with being, do not sail and neither reveals, not obvious or conceal it. There is no being behind the appearance, no reality, no way in which things are in truth. "
in the tension between this" everything seems in vain, "and the old" nothing looks in vain "is the heart of the discourse of De Monticelli, taking into account the fact that the author, in another writing, puts the phrase" Nothing is in vain "as the guiding principle of phenomenology. ( Phenomenology as a method of philosophical inquiry and its relevance , available in the web)
Just by Husserl, the father of phenomenology, starts the third part of the essay The moral issue, its pars construens: Husserl conceived from his first as a teacher during "what many have been unaware of the real project of his life: able to refute skepticism practical."
values, the author contends, we experience: "We will call" values \u200b\u200b"an infinite variety of quality characterized by two features: the polarity (positive or negative) and the comparative degree (top and bottom). Not need only look up and glance around him to meet freely. The sweetness of the Tuscan hills I see from this window, the splendor of the summer sky, the freshness of this wine helps young, the vulgarity of language judicial records captured by the gallows, the honesty of that conduct, the inherent baseness of any flattery, the beauty of this painting, the interest of this discovery, the injustice of this law, the sublimity of that prayer. "
values \u200b\u200bare then our experience of the facts, the facts lived, felt . On this basis, factual and experiential can start a search also true in morals.
Great charm and great ability to grasp the current through the eyes of philosophy in the book of De Monticelli, that I recommend to everyone.
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