Pomoc materialna – analiza powinności

• Authors: Kazimierz Sosenko

Title variants

EN

Material Assistance – an Analysis of Obligation

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this paper is to search for an answer to the question whether an ethical person should aid others or whether it is a moral duty. The postulate of assistance follows from concern for the good of another person, which is a characteristic of morality. However, not all contemporary ethical conceptions postulate the moral value of assistance. In particular, the ethics of Nietzsche and libertarians question its moral importance. The question of whether assistance has moral value depends on how we understand morality and the compulsoriness of its principles. Providing material assistance is a human act and the value of that act is influenced by its circumstances. Depending on the circumstances, the moral obligation of aid varies from permission to requirement. There are also praxeological conditions of the value of material assistance, connected with a negative evaluation of wastefulness and inefficiency. If people should help, how strong is the obligation to do so? The answer depends on the source of duty; unfortunately, deontological ethics cannot clearly differentiate situations in which material assistance is a duty from situations in which it as supererogatory act. We are therefore left to our own moral sensitivity.

Keywords

EN

material assistance; value; moral obligation; moral duty

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk / Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego
• Journal: Prakseologia
• Year: 2012
• Issue: 153
• Pages: 31-42

Contributors

author

Kazimierz Sosenko

• Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Krakowie, ul. Rakowicka 27, 31-510 Kraków

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