Naturalismo e Normatividade: sobre a compatibilização entre a determinação causal e a determinação normativa.

Abstract

The aim of this work is to investigate the normativity’s problem, namely: is it possible to compatibilize the fact that men are causally determined by material reality together with the fact that they, even so, still able to follow rules, principles and laws? One of the central points is to answer how it is possible that we are determined both causally and normatively. If, the answer were yes, then how can we reconcile (or unify) these dimensions. This is a problem present in the agenda of naturalistic perspectives and also of non-naturalist (normativist) conceptions. However, it doesn’t seem clear if the problem can be solved by appealing to any of these perspectives separately, since such strategy seems to leave aside an important part of the explanation. An example of this is that contemporaneously naturalists offer plausible arguments in defense of causality, while the normativists offer equally reasonable arguments about the normative domain, but they don’t appear be able to offer a unified explanation of both determinations. Therefore, the alternative to solve this question may be thinking about a kind of naturalism capable to advocate that the both determinations are fundamental to human action and, consequently, could be compatibilized somehow.