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Natural Goodness and the Political Form of Human Life

Müller, Jan. (2015) Natural Goodness and the Political Form of Human Life. Filozofija i društvo, 26 (3). pp. 565-592.

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Abstract

Ethical Naturalism attempts to explain the objective normativity effective in human practices by reference to the relation between a living in- dividual and the life-form it exhibits. This explanation falls short in the case of human beings (1) – not merely because of their essential rationality, but because the idea of normativity implicit in practice is dependent on the form of normativity’s being made explicit (2). I argue that this explicit form of normativity’s force and claim – the law in general – implies a tension between an explicit norm’s claim to absoluteness and the particularity of the situa- tional case it is applied to. This tension may seem to produce an inherent violence corrupting the very idea of objective normativity inherent in the hu- man form of life (3); in fact, it shows that the human form of life is essen- tially political. That the human form of life is essentially political does not contradict the idea of objective normativity – provided that this objectivity is not derived from a conception of “natural goodness”, but rather from the actuality of human practice and its principle, justice (4).
Faculties and Departments:04 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > Departement Künste, Medien, Philosophie > Fachbereich Philosophie > Praktische Philosophie (Krebs)
UniBasel Contributors:Müller, Jan
Item Type:Article, refereed
Article Subtype:Research Article
Publisher:Institut za Filozofiju i Društvenu Teoriju
ISSN:0353-5738
Note:Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article
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