Abstract

DALBOSCO, Claudio Almir; CENCI, Angelo Vitório  and  ROSSETTO, Miguel da Silva. Moral conservatism, indeterminacy of the human condition and democratic ethics. Educação. Porto Alegre [online]. 2020, vol.43, n.2, e35895.  Epub Feb 01, 2021. ISSN 1981-2582.  https://doi.org/10.15448/1981-2582.2020.2.35895.

This article argues that the moral conservatism of the « Bolsonarian moral community » is based on a closed and dogmatic notion of the world, as well as on the fundamentalist idea of the human being as a ready essence and on a hierarchical anthropological ontology. From this point, Bernstein’s fallibilist pragmatism is used as a critical reference to authoritarian moral conservatism and the danger of closing the public space it represents. Next, we aim to show that this public and critical way of thinking gives rise to an open and plural notion of the world and to the understanding of the condition of the human being as indeterminate, a condition that contradicts the irrational and excessive desire for omnipotence. Finally, it concludes that the nexus between open world and human fragility, within the framework of a democratic ethic, creates the conditions conducive to ethical and formative experiences.

Keywords : moral conservatism; human condition; fallibilism; democratic ethics.

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