Biblioteca Digital de VanguardiaOn Ethics and Politics (Notes on a Non-Linear Relationship)
The ethical cannot be reduced to political efficacy, as imagined at times by the ideological left. Clearly, it is also the case that politics cannot be reduced to being read in ethical terms, a misunderstanding firmly entrenched in times of the crisis of representation. “Ethicism” in political inter...
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Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede Ecuador
2010
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| description | The ethical cannot be reduced to political efficacy, as imagined at times by the ideological left. Clearly, it is also the case that politics cannot be reduced to being read in ethical terms, a misunderstanding firmly entrenched in times of the crisis of representation. “Ethicism” in political interpretation tends to delegitimize said interpretation as it prevents an understanding of its intrinsic functioning. There is also an “ethicism of the left” which, without understanding socio-structural factors, interpreted support for the Soviet state as simply an ethical abandonment of the emancipating principles of Marxism. But the idea that revolutionary thought can dispense with ethics tends to predominate, since political efficacy would be, in and of itself, ethical as regards the social benefits hoped for. It is not hard to predict the unfortunate consequences of the legitimatization of terror or absolutism that follow from an assumption that simply superimposes the ethical on the political. |
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| spelling | iconos-article-4212024-04-23T18:15:59Z On Ethics and Politics (Notes on a Non-Linear Relationship) Sobre ética y política (apuntes acerca de una relación no-lineal) Follari, Roberto ethics politics State left ideology ética política Estado izquierda ideología The ethical cannot be reduced to political efficacy, as imagined at times by the ideological left. Clearly, it is also the case that politics cannot be reduced to being read in ethical terms, a misunderstanding firmly entrenched in times of the crisis of representation. “Ethicism” in political interpretation tends to delegitimize said interpretation as it prevents an understanding of its intrinsic functioning. There is also an “ethicism of the left” which, without understanding socio-structural factors, interpreted support for the Soviet state as simply an ethical abandonment of the emancipating principles of Marxism. But the idea that revolutionary thought can dispense with ethics tends to predominate, since political efficacy would be, in and of itself, ethical as regards the social benefits hoped for. It is not hard to predict the unfortunate consequences of the legitimatization of terror or absolutism that follow from an assumption that simply superimposes the ethical on the political. Lo ético no es reductible a la eficacia política, como a veces se imagina desde la izquierda ideológica. Ciertamente, tampoco la política podría reducirse a formas éticas, incomprensión altamente instalada en tiempos de crisis de la representación. El “eticismo” en la interpretación de lo político suele servir a su deslegitimación, pues impide comprender su funcionamiento intrínseco. Hay también un “eticismo de izquierda”, que, sin comprender los factores socio-estructurales, interpretó el fervor por el estado soviético como el abandono ético de los principios emancipatorios del marxismo. Pero suele predominar la idea de que un pensamiento revolucionario puede prescindir de la ética, pues la eficacia política sería la ética por sí misma, en cuanto a sus esperados beneficios sociales. No cuesta advertir las lamentables consecuencias de legitimación del terror o del absolutismo que se siguen de una asunción que simplemente superponga lo político con lo ético. Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede Ecuador 2010-05-01 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Comentario invitado application/pdf https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/421 10.17141/iconos.37.2010.421 Íconos - Revista de Ciencias Sociales; Núm. 37 (2010): Dossier: Estudios de ciencia, tecnología y sociedad; 111-119 Íconos - Revista de Ciencias Sociales; n. 37 (2010): Dossier: Estudios de ciencia, tecnología y sociedad; 111-119 Íconos. Revista de Ciencias Sociales; No. 37 (2010): Dossier: Science, technology and society studies; 111-119 1390-8065 1390-1249 spa https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/421/407 Derechos de autor 2010 Roberto Follari https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/deed.es_ES |
| spellingShingle | Follari, Roberto On Ethics and Politics (Notes on a Non-Linear Relationship) |
| title | On Ethics and Politics (Notes on a Non-Linear Relationship) |
| title_full | On Ethics and Politics (Notes on a Non-Linear Relationship) |
| title_fullStr | On Ethics and Politics (Notes on a Non-Linear Relationship) |
| title_full_unstemmed | On Ethics and Politics (Notes on a Non-Linear Relationship) |
| title_short | On Ethics and Politics (Notes on a Non-Linear Relationship) |
| title_sort | on ethics and politics (notes on a non-linear relationship) |
| url | https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/421 |