Ethics and politics: what liberty? / Ética e política: qual liberdade?

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

The aim of this work is to analyze the features that characterize the classical ancient Greece and the modern Enlightenment as distinctive experiences of western history in relation to ethics and politics. In classical ancient Greece ethics and politics were inseparable and liberty was a communal and political moral question. Liberty in the ancient Greek democracy was a requirement to citizenship. With the advent of modern democracy, freedom, as a political value, becomes a question of rights, which belong to all the individuals as citizens. In the Enlightenment liberty became an individual question. If the sense of politics and ethics is liberty, the aim of this work, then, is to investigate whether or not, and up to which point, modern freedom might be in the epicenter of the problematic relationship between ethics and politics at the present time.

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freedom Ética democracia política democracy liberdade reason enlightenment razão liberty modernidade ethics politics

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