Ob-ligation by re-ligation. A complementary reading of Adela Cortina’s cordial ethics and Xavier Zubiri’s analysis of social reality.
Adela Cortina, in her Ethics of cordial reason, proposes a “cordial bond” as a foundation for moral obligation: a deeply felt and intuitively known bond among people that leads to cordial recognition of one another and demands active respect for human dignity. It is, therefore, a bond that ob-ligate...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicente Mártir |
| Repositorio: | RIUCV. Repositorio de la Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicente Mártir |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:riucv.ucv.es:20.500.12466/1747 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12466/1747 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Interpersonal bond Moral obligation Moral respectivity Open essence Respectividad moral Esencia abierta Vínculo interpersonal Obligación moral 72 Filosofía 71 Ética |
| Sumario: | Adela Cortina, in her Ethics of cordial reason, proposes a “cordial bond” as a foundation for moral obligation: a deeply felt and intuitively known bond among people that leads to cordial recognition of one another and demands active respect for human dignity. It is, therefore, a bond that ob-ligates. Cortina, however, does not elaborate on the nature of that bond; she points at it, briefly describes it, and moves on to expound its moral implications. In this paper, I show an interesting connection between Cortina´s “cordial bond” and Xavier Zubiri´s analysis of “religation”. According to Zubiri, there is a bond that “re-ligates” us to reality and to each other. In this sense, the ideas of these two philosophers complement each other. On the one hand, Zubiri´s analysis contributes to a more solid and in-depth explanation of a fundamental bond (ligation) among people and on the other hand, Cortina´s cordial ethics works out some of the moral implications (ob-ligations) of such a bond. |
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