The moral hero in Eric Weil's moral philosophy

Authors

  • Luís Manuel A. V. Bernardo Doutor em Filosofia. Professor da Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Keywords:

Moral philosophy. Heroism. Logic of philosophy. Eric Weil. Henri Bergson. Karl Jaspers.

Abstract

In this paper we intend to understand the reasons beneath Eric Weil’s decision to stick on the controversial figure of the hero in his Philosophie morale, published in 1961, through a detailed analysis of the texts concerned with it. As we acknowledged a constant and consistent dialogue with the versions of moral heroism of Henri Bergson and Karl Jaspers, from which he retakes the main thesis, but in a subversive way that leads to a paradoxical representation, we went on to search for the internal interactions between the Philosophie morale and the Logique de la philosophie, his masterwork, that could explain such deviations. This procedure leaded us to sustain the argument that the author kept the category of moral heroism based on discursive necessity, instead of historical or cultural one, and that this way of conceiving it was precisely his original contribution.

Author Biography

Luís Manuel A. V. Bernardo, Doutor em Filosofia. Professor da Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Doutor em Filosofia. Professor da Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

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Published

2014-08-13

Issue

No. 11

Section

Dossiê Eric Weil

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