{"id":15983,"date":"2020-08-06T08:29:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T08:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/psicologia\/que-punto-fin-puede-justificar-medios-todo-depende-tu-matriz-moral"},"modified":"2020-08-06T08:29:32","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T08:29:32","slug":"hasta-que-punto-el-fin-puede-justificar-los-medios-todo-depende-de-tu-matriz-moral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/hasta-que-punto-el-fin-puede-justificar-los-medios-todo-depende-de-tu-matriz-moral\/","title":{"rendered":"To what extent can the end justify the means? It all depends on your moral matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/2cda4d\/venice-3403354_640\/1024_2000.jpg\" alt=\"\u00bfHasta qu\u00e9 punto el fin puede justificar los medios? Todo depende de tu matriz moral\">\n    <\/p>\n<p>\u00bfMatar a una persona para evitar la muerte de diez? \u00bfTorturar a una v\u00edctima para evitar que otro la torture de forma m\u00e1s cruenta? \u00bfCometer alguna ilegalidad porque finalmente otra persona la acabara cometiendo igual? Todos ellos son dilemas, irresolubles mediante la l\u00f3gica, que se resuelven bajo el prisma moral del <strong>consequentialism<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 1 --><\/p>\n<p>El consecuencialismo, pues, sostiene que la moralidad de una acci\u00f3n depende solo de sus consecuencias (el fin justifica los medios)<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 2 --><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>\u00c9tica teleol\u00f3gica<\/h2>\n<p>Consequentialism, or <strong>\u00e9tica teleol\u00f3gica<\/strong>, se refiere a todas aquellas teor\u00edas de la \u00e9tica normativa que sostienen que la correcci\u00f3n o incorrecci\u00f3n de nuestras acciones est\u00e1 determinada por el valor o desvalor que ocurre debido a ellas. Tambi\u00e9n se le conoce como \u00e9tica consecutiva, ya que se basa el juicio de los actos en sus consecuencias, y se opone a la \u00e9ticas deontol\u00f3gicas, que sostienen que la moralidad de una acci\u00f3n es independiente del bien o mal generado a partir de ella.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 3 --><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-asset-image article-asset-normal\">\n<div class=\"asset-content\">\n<div class=\"caption-img\">\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"a\" class=\"centro_sinmarco\" src=\"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/15af22\/441px-jeremy_bentham_by_henry_william_pickersgill_detail\/450_1000.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span>Jeremy Bentham, padre del utilitarismo, una de las principales teor\u00edas consecuencialistas.<\/span>\n   <\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Un tipo de \u00e9tica teleol\u00f3gica, el que quiz\u00e1 m\u00e1s nos interesa cuando valoramos moralmente una cuesti\u00f3n cotidiana, es el <strong>utilitarianism<\/strong>, es decir: una acci\u00f3n es moralmente correcta <a href=\"https:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/archives\/sum2009\/entries\/utilitarianism-history\/\">if favorable results predominate over undesirable ones<\/a>, independientemente de qui\u00e9nes sean los beneficiarios. Por tanto, <strong>la mejor acci\u00f3n posible es aquella que produce el mayor bien; tal y como ser\u00eda medido por un observador imparcial<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 4 --><\/p>\n<p>En contra de las \u00e9ticas consecuencialistas se ha argumentado que es imposible estimar completamente las consecuencias de una acci\u00f3n, por lo que es dif\u00edcil alcanzar juicios seguros sobre estas. As\u00ed que, en vez del consencuencialismo, otros apuestan por la \u00e9tica de la virtud: sostener unos principios \u00e9ticos intocables, suceda lo que suceda (incluso aunque sea malo para uno o malo para todos).<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 5 --><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-asset article-asset-normal article-asset-center\">\n<div class=\"desvio-container\">\n<div class=\"desvio\">\n<div class=\"desvio-figure js-desvio-figure\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/psicologia\/izquierdas-derechas-buenas-personas-maneras-diferentes\" ><br \/>\n     <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Los&#x20;de&#x20;izquierdas&#x20;y&#x20;los&#x20;de&#x20;derechas&#x20;son&#x20;buenas&#x20;personas&#x20;pero&#x20;de&#x20;maneras&#x20;diferentes&#x20;\" src=\"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/af08c2\/choice-2692575_960_720\/375_142.jpg\"><br \/>\n    <\/a>\n   <\/div>\n<div class=\"desvio-summary\">\n<div class=\"desvio-taxonomy js-desvio-taxonomy\">\n     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/psicologia\/izquierdas-derechas-buenas-personas-maneras-diferentes\" class=\"desvio-taxonomy-anchor\">In Xataka Science<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/psicologia\/izquierdas-derechas-buenas-personas-maneras-diferentes\" class=\"desvio-title js-desvio-title\">Those on the left and those on the right are good people but in different ways <\/a>\n   <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Naturalmente, ninguno de nosotros adopta una u otra forma de conducirse por el mundo de forma absoluta, sino que bascula de uno a otro extremo en funci\u00f3n de las circunstancias y, tambi\u00e9n, de sus propias <strong>moral matrices<\/strong>. La teor\u00eda de las matrices morales o los fundamentos morales fue propuesta por primera vez por los psic\u00f3logos <strong>Jonathan Haidt<\/strong> and <strong>Craig Joseph<\/strong>, en base al trabajo realizado por el antrop\u00f3logo cultural <strong>Richard Shweder<\/strong>, and has subsequently been developed by a diverse group of collaborators, and popularized in Haidt&#039;s book entitled <em>The mind of the righteous<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 6 --><\/p>\n<p>Nuestros matrices morales tambi\u00e9n nos inclinan a adoptar toda clase de decisiones, incluidas las pol\u00edticas (desde nuestra posici\u00f3n al aborto a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/psicologia\/izquierdas-derechas-buenas-personas-maneras-diferentes\">If we heel to the left or right<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 7 --><\/p>\n<p>No hay ninguna posici\u00f3n correcta. Todo se puede debatir y sopesar. Sin embargo, para saber hasta qu\u00e9 punto pod\u00e9is sentir asco moral o no al obrar de forma consecuencialista, <strong>os propongo a continuaci\u00f3n un peque\u00f1o dilema moral al respecto<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 8 --><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-asset-video\">\n<div class=\"asset-content\">\n<div class=\"base-asset-video\">\n   <iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ettr0baCOzk\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n  <\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n (function() {\n  window._JS_MODULES = window._JS_MODULES || {};\n  var headElement = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];\n  if (_JS_MODULES.instagram) {\n   var instagramScript = document.createElement('script');\n   instagramScript.src = 'https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js';\n   instagramScript.async = true;\n   instagramScript.defer = true;\n   headElement.appendChild(instagramScript);\n  }\n })();\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p> &#8211; <br \/> The news<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/psicologia\/que-punto-fin-puede-justificar-medios-todo-depende-tu-matriz-moral?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=06_Aug_2020\"><br \/>\n       <em> To what extent can the end justify the means? It all depends on your moral matrix <\/em><br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n      was originally published in<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=06_Aug_2020\"><br \/>\n       <strong> Xataka Science <\/strong><br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n            by <a\n       href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/autor\/sergio-parra?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=06_Aug_2020\"><br \/>\n       Sergio Parra<br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n      . <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/xatakaciencia\/~4\/SD9Fb9ZZps0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/2cda4d\/venice-3403354_640\/1024_2000.jpg\" alt=\"&iquest;Hasta qu&eacute; punto el fin puede justificar los medios? Todo depende de tu matriz moral\"><\/p>\n<p>Kill one person to prevent the death of ten? Torture a victim to prevent someone else from torturing them more cruelly? Commit something illegal because someone else will end up committing it in the same way? All of them are dilemmas, unsolvable through logic, that are resolved under the moral prism of the <strong>consequentialism<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 1 --><\/p>\n<p>Consequentialism, then, maintains that the morality of an action depends only on its consequences (the end justifies the means).<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 2 --><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Teleological ethics<\/h2>\n<p>Consequentialism, or <strong>teleological ethics<\/strong>, refers to all those theories of normative ethics that hold that the rightness or wrongness of our actions is determined by the value or disvalue that occurs due to them. It is also known as consecutive ethics, since the judgment of acts is based on their consequences, and is opposed to deontological ethics, which maintain that the morality of an action is independent of the good or evil generated from it.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 3 --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"a\" src=\"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/15af22\/441px-jeremy_bentham_by_henry_william_pickersgill_detail\/450_1000.jpg\"><span>Jeremy Bentham, father of utilitarianism, one of the main consequentialist theories.<\/span>\n   <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A type of teleological ethics, the one that perhaps interests us most when we morally evaluate an everyday issue, is <strong>utilitarianism<\/strong>, that is: an action is morally correct <a href=\"https:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/archives\/sum2009\/entries\/utilitarianism-history\/\">if favorable results predominate over undesirable ones<\/a>, regardless of who the beneficiaries are. Therefore, <strong>The best possible action is that which produces the greatest good; as would be measured by an impartial observer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 4 --><\/p>\n<p>It has been argued against consequentialist ethics that it is impossible to fully estimate the consequences of an action, making it difficult to reach confident judgments about them. So, instead of consequentialism, others opt for virtue ethics: upholding untouchable ethical principles, whatever happens (even if it is bad for one or bad for all).<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 5 --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/psicologia\/izquierdas-derechas-buenas-personas-maneras-diferentes\"><br \/>\n     <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Los de izquierdas y los de derechas son buenas personas pero de maneras diferentes \" src=\"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/af08c2\/choice-2692575_960_720\/375_142.jpg\"><\/a>\n   <\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/psicologia\/izquierdas-derechas-buenas-personas-maneras-diferentes\">In Xataka Science<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/psicologia\/izquierdas-derechas-buenas-personas-maneras-diferentes\">Those on the left and those on the right are good people but in different ways <\/a>\n   <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Naturally, none of us adopts one way or another of conducting ourselves through the world absolutely, but rather swings from one extreme to another depending on the circumstances and, also, our own feelings. <strong>moral matrices<\/strong>. The theory of moral matrices or moral foundations was first proposed by psychologists <strong>Jonathan Haidt<\/strong> and <strong>Craig Joseph<\/strong>, based on the work carried out by the cultural anthropologist <strong>Richard Shweder<\/strong>, and has subsequently been developed by a diverse group of collaborators, and popularized in Haidt&#039;s book entitled <em>The mind of the righteous<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 6 --><\/p>\n<p>Our moral matrixes also incline us to adopt all kinds of decisions, including political ones (from our position to abortion to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/psicologia\/izquierdas-derechas-buenas-personas-maneras-diferentes\">If we heel to the left or right<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 7 --><\/p>\n<p>There is no correct position. Everything can be debated and weighed. However, to know to what extent you can feel moral disgust or not when acting in a consequentialist way, <strong>I propose below a small moral dilemma in this regard.<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 8 --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> &#8211; <br \/> The news<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/psicologia\/que-punto-fin-puede-justificar-medios-todo-depende-tu-matriz-moral?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=06_Aug_2020\"><br \/>\n       <em> To what extent can the end justify the means? It all depends on your moral matrix <\/em><br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n      was originally published in<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=06_Aug_2020\"><br \/>\n       <strong> Xataka Science <\/strong><br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n            by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/autor\/sergio-parra?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=06_Aug_2020\"><br \/>\n       Sergio Parra<br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n      . <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/xatakaciencia\/~4\/SD9Fb9ZZps0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"><\/p>","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-portal-3"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15983"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16251,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15983\/revisions\/16251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}