La ricerca di un senso nella vita, la prospettiva morale e i limiti di una concezione sentimentalista

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Bacin, Stefano
Copyright Year	2017
Abstract	I discuss Eugenio Lecaldano’s view of the search for meaning in life focusing on three issues. First, I suggest that an accurate account should accommodate both a prospective and a retrospective mode of the reflection on meaning in one’s own life. Second, Lecaldano’s distinction between meaningfulness and morality is underdetermined in two respects: (a) because a more flexible view of morality is able to integrate a consideration of meaningfulness in terms of the agent’s own perfection, avoiding moralistic implications, and (b) because a genuine separation between meaningfulness and morality seems to make sense only from a third-person standpoint. Third, I argue that Lecaldano’s sentimentalist view is not supported by conclusive arguments and cannot account for the possibility of a meaningful life without feelings of accomplishment and affirmation.
Starting Page	287
Ending Page	304
Page Count	18
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
Volume Number	19
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://www2.units.it/etica/2017_2/BACIN.pdf
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article