Deformation of Conscience. Pseudo‑­Norms in Terms of Dietrich von Hildebrand

Authors

  • Tadeusz Biesaga Uniwersytet Papieski Jana Pawła II w Krakowie

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15633/lie.2124

Keywords:

Dietrich von Hildebrand, pseudo‑­norms, legalism, anarchism, extra‑­moral theories, extra‑­moral ideologies, moral values, extra‑­moral values, value response, reverent‑­humble‑­loving center, concupiscent center, pride center

Abstract

The paper presents a description of moral pseudo‑­norms, which displace proper moral norms from our consciousness and action as well as distort our morality. The study analyzes mainly the pseudo‑­norms that generate the fundamentals of legalism and their opposition – the fundamentals of moral anarchism. The first groups of pseudo‑­norms identifies morality with civil law, especially criminal law. On the other hand the other group of pseudo‑­norms, equates morality with what is spontaneous, impulsive, authentic.
The paper analyzes not only the scope- and content‑­related distortion of moral norms caused by the substitutes of morality, but it also reveals the reasons of creating the pseudo‑­norms in our consciousness. These reasons are induced by the impact of the pride center and the concupiscent center on our value response and by preferring the extra‑­moral values over the moral ones.
Exposing the mechanism of functioning of the pseudo‑­norms in our moral consciousness is useful not only for ethics but also for psychology and pedagogy as well as for self‑­education and moral development.

Author Biography

  • Tadeusz Biesaga, Uniwersytet Papieski Jana Pawła II w Krakowie
    Tadeusz Biesaga SDB, dr hab., prof. UPJPII – etyk, bioetyk, kierownik Katedry Bioetyki na Wy­dziale Filozoficznym UPJPII. Rozwija per­so­nalistyczną etykę, bioetykę i etykę medyczną. Z punktu widzenia personalizmu realistycznego przeprowadza krytykę utylitaryzmu, socjonomizmu i kontraktualizmu w etyce ogólnej, w bioetyce i etyce medycznej.

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2017-06-01

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Vol. 23 No. 1 (2017)

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