Universidad Lucerna

This short essay reframes the debate on the subject stated in the title from the perspective of an intercultural philosophy and liberationist, seeking to clarify the concepts involved and distinguish between postures more or less naive or celebratory of the interculturality/decolonization, on one hand, and critical and emancipatory postures on the other hand. We are at an historic point in which the discourse of interculturality and decolonization undergoes a process of wear and cooptation by the hegemonic monocultural and globalizing model in the sense of a Western cultural imperialism and of a postmodernity in consumerism key.

No presente trabalho será demonstrada a estreita, embora discreta, relação da filosofia moral de Kant com a ética antiga, especialmente com o estoicismo de Cícero. O tema será explicitado mediante uma aproximação entre as obras da Crítica da razão prática e Sobre os fins (De finibus), respectivamente de cada um desses autores. Será destacada a crítica de Kant à identificação entre virtude e felicidade e sua reformulação sintética no conceito de “sumo bem”. Na conclusão se torna claro que a realização moral da razão, reivindicada por Cícero, encontra na reformulação de Kant sua determinação mais precisa. The crises of practical reason and stoicism Abstract The present paper shows the close albeit subtle relation of Kant’s moral philosophy to ancient ethics, especially Cicero’s Stoicism. The subject is made explicit by means of a rapprochement between the Critique of practical reason and De finibus, so as to be highlight Kant’s criticism of the classical identifying of virtue and happiness and his synthetical recasting of the concept of the supreme good. The essay concludes by making clear that the moral actualization of reason, reclaimed by Cicero, finds in Kant’s reformulation its most precise determination.