| Journal: | Crítica (México, D.F.) |
| Database: | CLASE |
| System number: | 000413397 |
| ISSN: | 0011-1503 |
| Authors: | Carrasco, María A1 |
| Institutions: | 1Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Facultad de Filosofía, Santiago de Chile. Chile |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Season: | Ago |
| Volumen: | 46 |
| Number: | 137 |
| Pages: | 61-84 |
| Country: | México |
| Language: | Español |
| Document type: | Artículo |
| Approach: | Analítico |
| Spanish abstract | Durante la Ilustración escocesa se legitimó la “perspectiva del espectador imparcial” como garantía de juicios morales imparciales. Esta escuela de pensamiento se ha considerado tradicionalmente como la antesala del utilitarismo. Sin embargo, actualmente se sostiene que, aunque Hutcheson y Hume sí son protoutilitaristas, la teoría de Smith es la primera gran crítica al utilitarismo. En este ensayo atribuyo esta diferencia a la posición desde la que juzga el espectador —tercera o segunda persona— de la que se derivan estructuras metaéticas distintas que condicionan, entre otras cosas, el significado de la noción de imparcialidad |
| English abstract | During the Scottish Enlightenment, the “point of view of the spectator” was considered to be the adequate standpoint from where to make impartial moral judgments. This school of thought has often been seen as anticipating Utilitarianism. However, many interpreters are now saying that, despite their similar approaches to ethics, Hutcheson’s and Hume’s theories are proto-utilitarian while Smith’s is not. Indeed, Smith was the first important critic of Utilitarianism. In this paper I provide further reasons for Smith’s critical attitude to Utilitarianism by tracing it back to his specific account of the position of the impartial spectator: either a third-person or a second-person standpoint. This position generates different meta-ethical structures that determine, among other things, the meaning of the notion of impartiality |
| Disciplines: | Filosofía |
| Keyword: | Etica, Doctrinas y corrientes filosóficas, Filosofía moderna, Metaética, Utilitarismo, Etica normativa, Sistemas mórales, Ilustración, Smith, Adam, Hume, David, Hutcheson, Francis, Imparcialidad, Dignidad, Respeto |
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