Abstract

O artigo mostra que há boas razões para questionar se abordagens embasadas na virtude sobre a questão da justiça podem adequadamente dar conta dos usos sofistas da mentira política – especialmente quando o pensamento sofista estende-se ao ponto culminante do ceticismo moral, ou para além do gritante niilismo moral e seus usos cínicos. A fim de refutar tais usos, recorre-se à mais influente discussão sobre a mentira em Kant, que se encontra em seu artigo de 1797 “Sobre o Suposto Direito de Mentir por causa da Filantropia.” Embora mantenha que o particular argumento moral kantiano contra Constant seja deficiente, o artigo argumenta que a posição especificamente política no argumento jurídico genérico de Kant é defensável. Mostra-se, portanto, que o relato kantiano das condições para a possível conformidade da política com os princípios do Direito efetivamente estabelece que um ato de mentir é passível de impeachment e categoricamente exige o impeachment e a devida execução jurídica de tal delito. PALAVRAS-CHAVE – Filosofia do Direito. Filosofia moral. Kant. Mentira política.

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  • The paper argues that there is good reason to doubt that virtue-based approaches to the question of justice can adequately come to grips with sophistic uses of the political lie – especially when sophistic thinking is stretched to the point of thoroughgoing moral skepticism, or well beyond that to outright moral nihilism and its cynical uses

  • ‘truthfulness’) is a term coined by the US-American television satirist Stephen Colbert

  • Colbert generally uses this term to characterize a highly vulgarized conception of truth that in recent years has often played a dominant role in United States political discourse

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The paper argues that there is good reason to doubt that virtue-based approaches to the question of justice can adequately come to grips with sophistic uses of the political lie – especially when sophistic thinking is stretched to the point of thoroughgoing moral skepticism, or well beyond that to outright moral nihilism and its cynical uses. ‘truthfulness’) is a term coined by the US-American television satirist Stephen Colbert. Colbert generally uses this term to characterize a highly vulgarized conception of truth that in recent years has often played a dominant role in United States political discourse.

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