Abstract
The following article analizes the moral sentiments attached to volunteer work as a civic practice which links individualism and altruism. I consider individualism as the moral center of contemporary culture, whereas altruism is an extraordinary behaviour, both in the moral and the social sense. I have studied the motivations of formal volunteerism, leaving aside informal help. I have found three discourses that have been considered as ideal types, even though in all of them individualism and altruism are intertwined. The so-called individualistic language, the Christian one and the civic one express the contemporary moral languages, which contain a specific conception of the social ties and the moral sentiments that are adscribed to it.
Highlights
The following article analizes the moral sentiments attached to volunteer work as a civic practice which links individualism and altruism
I have studied the motivations of formal volunteerism
three discourses that have been considered as ideal types
Summary
Éstas son algunas de las preguntas que se pueden responder a través del análisis del voluntariado actual como una forma peculiar de vinculación social. Considero a éste como una metáfora de la gestación y expresión de unos valores colectivos que oscilan entre el egoísmo (trasunto moral del individualismo, que es un fenómeno sociopolítico) y el altruismo. De ahí la pertinencia de una metodología cualitativa, que analiza los discursos de los sujetos sociales y, en el caso que nos ocupa, del conjunto de sentimientos morales que anidan en la peculiar vinculación social que supone el voluntariado. Filantropía democrática y sentimientos morales cualitativo permite desbrozar los lenguajes genéricos que enmarcan el voluntariado como acción social. Dichos lenguajes forman parte de una tradición, entendida como un modelo de comprensión y evaluación que las sociedades forjan a lo largo del tiempo. A continuación expondré los argumentos principales de los discursos mencionados, haciendo especial hincapié en los sentimientos morales que anudan —o desmembran— los vínculos sociales, uno de los cuales es la nueva filantropía
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