Nastaran Balinparast; Hassan Fathzade
Abstract
This paper examines the reducibility of politics to classical ethics by examining the presumed assumptions of the relationship between ethics and politics. After criticizing classical ...
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This paper examines the reducibility of politics to classical ethics by examining the presumed assumptions of the relationship between ethics and politics. After criticizing classical epistemology, it criticizes its presuppositions. Then concludes that, although modern thought has made epistemology different, it has failed to eliminate puritanistic presuppositions of morality which is the inheritance of the metaphysical era. This is because modern epistemology is far removed from puritanism and absolute principles by a historical understanding of concepts such as morality and politics. While classical ethics is in search of pure and is looking for a list of presupposed good and bad. In the meantime, Machiavelli is one of the first to recognize the necessity of revising the system of values and adapting morality with modern epistemology. He claims that the new Ethics is not only irreducible to some principles but as a historical structure, it reproduces itself in different situations. Acquiring these new ethics is possible in the face of accepting evil and adapting it to the nature of the era. In this way, politics also has the opportunity to focus on its main goal of minimizing violence. The present research introduces the idea of "ethics in politics" as the modern ethics of modern politics.
