Abstract

ROSAS JIMENEZ, Carlos Alberto. VON HILDEBRAND AND HIS VISION OF AFFECTIVITY: ¿A PATH TO ETHICS?. Escritos - Fac. Filos. Let. Univ. Pontif. Bolivar. [online]. 2013, vol.21, n.47, pp.419-432. ISSN 0120-1263.

In a world in which emotions and feelings occupy a dominant place in daily human life and especially in decision-making circumstances, it is important for us to ask ourselves whether it is possible to talk about "new" ethics or "renewed ethics." Actually, we do not face a re-creation of principles and values, but rather we face a need for deepening our understanding of human anthropology. Thinkers such as Dietrich von Hildebrand have proposed that affectivity can shed light on ethics comprehension. By means of a study of some of the works of this contemporary philosopher, we state that ethics is the result of a harmony between a clear objective comprehension of reality and a straight comprehension of that reality within the sphere of an educated, formed and well-known affectivity of the human person, which would lead us beyond the common place understanding of ethics as something rigid and full of rules and restrictions.

Keywords : Von Hildebrand; Person; Affectivity; Ethics; Realism.

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