探索道德目标与动机之间的实践联系 - (The search for a practical bond between moral goals and motivation)

Este ensayo delinea el "problema de la acción humana": la realización de los ideales morales. Se detiene en una crítica de un humanismo que no considera suficientemente la dimensión emocional de la acción y reclama que los elementos que tocan al tener un objetivo moral y a la dimensión emocional, han de ser pensados como parte de una indisoluble unidad fenomenológica de vivencia. Para terminar hace una evaluación de la razón ética de corte kantiano a la luz de la aportación del Cardenal Newman acerca del asentimiento real

After delineating the problem of action , i.e. the problematic aspiration for the moral agent of effectively putting into practice what he has desired and decided, the essay engages in a critic of humanism, whenever the latter obliviates the dramatic dimension of human action, which is always somehow affected by emotion. In a third part the essay points to the necessity of keeping asking about the way in which the act of morality within the person comes about while embracing its twofold goal-conscious and emotive dimension. It claims the need of thinking these two aspects as belonging to a single phenomenological experience, specially in view of the history of practical philosophy where in the jargon of Modernity- the conflict between (moral) reason and passions has hindered a satisfactory synthesis: already Ovid admitted melancholically «Video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor» ( I see and approve the better course, but I follow the worse ). In contemporary times the problem of motivation keeps hereof issuing moral philosophy a challenge. Reflections as those of Cardinal Newman regarding the notional and real assent throw the quest for a truly appreciation of the practical bond between moral goals and motivation in the right direction: the one that does not oppose motions and moral reasoning.