Compasión, política y memoria. El sentimiento moral en Max Horkheimer

Abstract

The claiming for the moral sentiment (feeling) in the materialist thought of M. Horkheimer becames a new significance in present discussion about the foundation and the motive of moral action. But this significance would disappoint if it was interpreted in a sense opposite to its very intention. Indeed, its signficance don’t reside neither in opening the door to a romantic irrationalismus nor in propose a return to a premodern, metaphysical or theological, foundation, advancing the purpose of the present neoconsevative thought. Its originality and significance reside rather in fact that the materialist conception of moral sentiment (feeling) by Horkheimer incite to surpass the idealist, formal, and particular moral toward a postidealist moral of compassion and universal justice.