Sobre algunas críticas a la Ética de la liberación. Respuesta a Julio Cabrera

Abstract

The author responds to some criticisms of Julio Cabrera arguing that ethical principles at an abstract level may contradict other ethical principles at the concrete level of its application. In these circumstances, decisions concerning which principle has to be applied in each concrete case are taken by a practical discursive consensus or, in a monological level, by prudentia considerations. In this case one can defend heterocide without abandoning the universal abstract principle “Thou shall not kill”. Similarly, even if suicide has no acceptable rational or ethical grounds, one may, in some concrete cases, offer one’s own life for the sake of the community. Furthermore, political demands, which are more complex than mere abstract principles, are still obligatory according to the ethical normativity of its own field.