Des manifestations de l’infini à travers le fini : les cas de l’amour et de l’empathie : vers une éthique de l’altruisme

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Supervisors

Counet, Jean-Michel

Faculty

Faculté de philosophie, arts et lettres

Degree label

Master [120] en philosophie, à finalité didactique

Abstract

enFollowing the Crépuscule des idoles, with Jean-Marie Guyau we build a morality which frees us from the categorical imperative and goes forward the contemporary english morality. This one takes for principle life itself in its intensive and extensive character. Moral action is finally justified by a driving principle rather than under the yoke of coercion. Love and empathy are the building blocks of this intensive and extensive nature of life. In their unitary dimension between identity and otherness, we define them philosophically and biologically as common and potential natural dispositions ; they are therefore to be developed and educated. As such, love and empathy are seen as conditions for the possibility of social bonding, cooperation and even solidarity, and, by extension, for a progression in moral action. Infinity emerges from the finite as the extension of its possibilities.