Nosotros y la ética material de Kant

Abstract

In his last writings Kant enriches his ethical formalism by means of a material ethic in which he makes clear that it is not enough to know how to act but that we must also know what to do and where to direct our action. The reference is an ethic of contents and ends that goes beyond the formalism and the monologic character, cognitivist and formalist of the first ethic. The first ethic end that a human being must seek is the search for happiness and general wellbeing in this world. It’s achivement presupposes a juridical ordering, institutional rational, which is only possible if the citizens have attained adulthood in the use of reason thanks to an educative system that teaches them how to think critically about the social reality in which they live and about it’s possible but effective transformation.