Investigating Officer

Introduction

Contemporary Ethics is at a crossroads not finding a valid output universal ethical problems either on theoretical grounds or applied ethics. Part of the problem is inherited from the time of modernity, in which fractures originated in philosophical thought. There began, and has not been resolved yet, the controversy over whether moral principles are real or not. Moreover, in contemporary ethical reasoning when it comes to support a particular ethical position, one collides with a wide range of ethical theories, which appear irreconcilable dichotomous: deontology, consequentialism, principalism, situationism, universalism, contextualism, which being forced to choose between one or another position numerous fallacies committed disqualifying.

There is a great divide in the methods of ethical decision. People do not understand because they have the same conception of the world and life and, therefore, the same hierarchy of values. Different sensitivities and ways of understanding issues such as freedom, responsibility or behavior not only between cultures but also within the same culture according to the historical moment and even within the same human being according to the stage of development must found. The debates on abortion, assisted reproduction, the status of the human embryo, the right to procreate, methods to shorten or lengthen life, euthanasia, or the possibilities of manipulating hereditary traits exemplify the difficulty of finding common ground and thereby a single line of argument able to share the same convictions to all members of a society. But imposing as absolute coercion by a particular form of ethical thinking is not a way of solution. Both absolutism and relativism inevitably lead to the same result: the destruction of the moral life.

Discussion

The problem that, to the modern mentality, philosophy is discredited in its ability to guide the action and resolve disputes is added. Rather, it dispenses with the philosophy to guide the ethical foundation. In the postmodern era that we live philosophical reason has been replaced by technology, as useless surplus relegating the problems not susceptible scientific experimentation. Part of the problem is due to a lack of understanding of what constitutes the anthropological constitution of the human being on which to base ethics. It also requires an ontological-metaphysical foundation that starts with the person, which we argue in this paper through genetic metaphysics.

The legacy of modernity in contemporary ethics

The most characteristic of modern thought process was introspection, initiated by Cartesian thought, which found in a form of rationality rid of an external ontological dependence guy, looking for the solution to ethics within subjectivity. The characteristic of modern man was to look within themselves the answer to the possibility of knowing the universe. A path of modernism opened Hume, who contributed to the idea that the principle of morality is a feeling and therefore the content of morality can dig through the experience. According to Hume, the universal principle of morality is the pursuit of pleasure and pain preventability as it is a feeling that all reasoning is presented in the plane of action (Brodie, 2007). This was the basis of utilitarianism ...