A ética do desperdício: a influência da compaixão no querer fazer moral de adolescentes
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2010-08-13
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Bronzatto, Maurício [UNESP]
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Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
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Vive-se uma época crepuscular do dever, a meio caminho entre a agonia moral e a renovação ética. Estudos recentes na área da Psicologia Moral têm demonstrado que se os valores morais se tornarem centrais nas representações de si das pessoas, esse querer particular, o dever, será sentido com força e prevalecerá sobre outros quereres estranhos ou contrários à moral. Tudo o que se tem a fazer é investir a personalidade com tais valores. Mas como, se o Bem é átono e as ações morais, pouco prestigiadas socialmente como traduções de excelência do ser no tempo presente? De tal problematização nasce este estudo, cuja proposição foi a de investigar a influência do recebimento de um atendimento magnânimo de compaixão como um fator impulsionador do querer fazer moral. Sem pretender com esse sentimento fundar uma moral, estudamo-lo sob dois aspectos: 1º) realizando uma análise psicológica e filosófica de algumas obras clássicas do mundo ficcional que o tematizam; e 2º) por meio de uma pesquisa empírica, indo a campo ouvir 50 adolescentes entre 15 e 18 anos sobre como concebem a compaixão e se estar sob seus efeitos, depois de tê-la experimentado (em situações hipotéticas, veiculadas por meio de narrativas a eles apresentadas), contribui para desviar um pouco seus olhares de si mesmos e colocá-los no outro, enxergando suas necessidades e direitos e realizando escolhas morais correspondentes. O resultado a que se chegou com a pesquisa empírica pode assim ser traduzido: pela admiração e gratidão que suscita, pela gratuidade que veicula, pelo valor que confere e pelo desequilíbrio que provoca, um atendimento magnânimo de compaixão motiva grandemente para o querer fazer moral. O estudo com a literatura ficcional, que, entre outras análises, incluiu a dos romances “O Idiota”, de Dostoiévski, e “Os Miseráveis”, de Victor Hugo, possibilitou uma...
We live in a twilight age of duty, midway between moral agony and ethical renewal. Recent studies in the area of Moral Psychology have shown that if moral values become central to the self-representations of people, this peculiar desire or duty will be felt with such strength that it will prevail over other desires that are strange or opposed to morality. All you have to do is to invest your character with such values. But how can you do this, if the Good is unassertive and moral actions have little social prestige, at present, as manifestations of excellence? This perplex issue is what gave birth to the present study, the proposition of which was to investigate the influence of receiving the magnanimous touch of compassion as a driving factor in wanting to do moral actions. With no pretense of using this feeling to create a moral system, we examined it under two aspects: 1) conducting a psychological and philosophical analysis of some classic fictional writings that used this subject as a theme, and 2) by means of an empirical research in which 50 teenagers between 15 and 18 years old were interviewed on their concept of compassion and if they felt that being under its effect, after having experienced it (in hypothetical situations, given through narratives presented to them), would help to take their attention off themselves and place it on others, seeing the others’ needs and rights and making the correspondent moral choices. The conclusion that was reached through the empirical research may be expressed as follows: by reason of the admiration and gratitude that is engendered, the graciousness that is imparted, the appreciation that is attributed and the impact that takes one off balance, the magnanimous touch of compassion is a very strong factor that motivates a person to want to act morally. The study of fictional literature, which, among other analyses, included the novels ... (Complete abstract click electronic access balow)
We live in a twilight age of duty, midway between moral agony and ethical renewal. Recent studies in the area of Moral Psychology have shown that if moral values become central to the self-representations of people, this peculiar desire or duty will be felt with such strength that it will prevail over other desires that are strange or opposed to morality. All you have to do is to invest your character with such values. But how can you do this, if the Good is unassertive and moral actions have little social prestige, at present, as manifestations of excellence? This perplex issue is what gave birth to the present study, the proposition of which was to investigate the influence of receiving the magnanimous touch of compassion as a driving factor in wanting to do moral actions. With no pretense of using this feeling to create a moral system, we examined it under two aspects: 1) conducting a psychological and philosophical analysis of some classic fictional writings that used this subject as a theme, and 2) by means of an empirical research in which 50 teenagers between 15 and 18 years old were interviewed on their concept of compassion and if they felt that being under its effect, after having experienced it (in hypothetical situations, given through narratives presented to them), would help to take their attention off themselves and place it on others, seeing the others’ needs and rights and making the correspondent moral choices. The conclusion that was reached through the empirical research may be expressed as follows: by reason of the admiration and gratitude that is engendered, the graciousness that is imparted, the appreciation that is attributed and the impact that takes one off balance, the magnanimous touch of compassion is a very strong factor that motivates a person to want to act morally. The study of fictional literature, which, among other analyses, included the novels ... (Complete abstract click electronic access balow)
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Conduta, Ética, Afetividade, Moral e afetividade, Compaixão, Literatura e compaixão, Compassion, Morality, Ethics, Literature and compassion, Morality and affectivity
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BRONZATTO, Maurício. A ética do desperdício: a influência da compaixão no querer fazer moral de adolescentes. 2010. xviii, 456 f. Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual Paulista, Faculdade de Ciências e Letras de Araraquara, 2010.