From Discourse to Moral Conversations: A reformulation of Discourse Ethics according to Seyla Benhabib

• Grant number: 13/15036-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: October 01, 2013
• End date: August 31, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy - Ethics
• Principal Investigator: Yara Adario Frateschi
• Grantee: Ana Cláudia Lopes Silveira
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 14/13155-5 - Situations of justice, contextualizing the self: Rainer Forst and Seyla Benhabib in debate, BE.EP.MS

Abstract

The aim of this research is to investigate Seyla Benhabib's proposal of "interactive universalism" as an ethical theory at the same time universalist and context sensitive, specially regarding the issue of moral motivation. The key concept of our investigation is the Principle of Universalizability. In Benhabib's view, this principle must comprehend a moral conversation based on the principles of universal moral respect and egalitarian reciprocity. Our purpose is to ask: (i) the meaning of moral conversation, universal moral respect and egalitarian reciprocity; (ii) how Benhabib handles these concepts in order to establish the interactive universalism.