Abstract

PARMIGIANI, Matías. Intersubjetivity and Auto-Referentiality in C.S. Nino's Ethical Theory. Diánoia [online]. 2011, vol.56, n.66, pp.105-139. ISSN 0185-2450.

In El constructivismo ético, C.S. Nino pointed out that "discussion and inter-subjective decision is the most trustable procedure when trying to arrive to moral truth". This epistemic thesis about moral knowledge clearly embraces a political assessment: in order to succeed at impartially satisfying the interests of everyone in a community, "the interchange of ideas and each person's necessity to justify in the face of the others" play a pivotal role. On the contrary, when the task in question is related to the auto-referential dimension of morality, the derivations of that thesis in Nino's work become certainly unclear. By attempting to overstep this bound, I will explore in the present paper the connection that is supposed to exist between the social practice of moral communication and the discovery and justification of the auto-referential principles of behavior.

Keywords : moral deliberation; autonomy; liberalism; perfectionism.

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