From the hypothesis that social cooperation is not based on Levinasian altruism and refuting the exclusive necessity of duty for its realization, it is conjectured that the act of cooperating distances itself from the ...

In this thesis, the main objective is to reflect about the moral justificability of suicide starting from David Hume’s theory. Suicide represents a disturbing phenomenon that is inserted in the historical-philosophical ...

The present dissertation studies the Kantian moral philosophy and the thought about the religion in Kant from the perspective of a unity between them based on moral principles. This dissertative study consults the main ...

This dissertation has as its theme the relationship between the concepts of freedom and justice developed by John Rawls (Justice as Fairness) and Robert Nozick (Libertarianism). Both authors talk about similar subjects and ...

This thesis is an ethical analysis of taxation based on John Rawls’ (1921 – 2002) proposal, in the liberal tradition, found in his work A Theory of Justice. Rawls was a philosopher who contributed significantly to the ...

This dissertation investigates what the virtue ethics has to say to us about 21st century consumer relations and our search for happiness through the accumulation of things, how much it ends up fragmenting our social ...

This work aims to examine the problem of the sacralization of animals present in religions of African origin from the Nagô worldview, scanning together with the views of Peter Singer's classic Utilitarianism and Utilitarianism ...

Reflection on responsibility as a new ethical foundation, from the work of Hans Jonas. It is organized into three chapters. The first aims to establish a relationship between Ernst Bloch's principle of hope and the principle ...