Abstract

HOYOS, Luis Eduardo. Ethics and Practical Rationality. Diánoia [online]. 2007, vol.52, n.58, pp.95-123. ISSN 0185-2450.

This paper is a defense of the thesis according to which there is a conceptual link, though not an obvious one, i.e. not an analytical link, between moral rationality and practical rationality. it is pointed out that this link could be seen when attention is paid to the normative component that belongs to the so called instrumental rationality, but also when it is acknowledged as convenient to build a bridge between the "eudemonist and utilitarian sources of normativity" and the kantian notion of a person as an end in itself. For persons must be essentially endowed with bodily predicates.

Keywords : normativity; rationality; ends; means; person.