The application of the phenomenological method as an element of the analysis of moral experience according to Paolo Valori

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to present the application of the phenomenological method as one of the elements of the analysis of moral experience in the view of Paolo Valori (1919–2003). In his approach, such analysis proceeds in four steps. The first is the identification of the background of a moral fact with the help of human sciences; the second step is the phenomenological analysis of moral experience; the third step marks the search for the ontological foundation of the results obtained; in this way, the analysis reaches an end from the philosophical point of view, but it can be continued within moral theology, which is the fourth step of the process.