Keywords
Rorty
contemporary world
moral sense
civilization
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Abstract
This paper has two main purposes. On the one hand,. to retrieve Rorty's thesis in Human Rights, Rationality and Sentimentalism, according to which David Hume is best suited than Kant to think moral progress in contemporary world. And this is so for the Scottish philosopher argues that moral feeling, as corrected simpathy, —and not reason— is the fundamental moral competence that begets enlightment and civilization. On the other hand, the paper intends to find out in Hume's moral enquiry relevant moral keys to think solidarity, tolerance and participation in today's context.This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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