The motivation for ethical behaviour

Abstract

Practical philosophy’s return to self-consciousness began when the hope for social renovation encouraged new forms of experience and action. This self-consciousness had undergone a period of crisis when totalitarian demands revealed social reality to be marred by shortcomings and attempted to assume power through a radical change. The return to ethics takes place when these demands are justifiably critiqued and returned to certain frameworks, however the return mounts a challenge aginst the foundations of that renovation which would rely on old forms. In this manner, ethics comes into a sphere of semi illumination so as to ground a reason of self-restriction and survival set against the reason of war. Caught within this dilema, practical philosophy has to validate itself by coming to a realisation of the concrete needs of man here and now. of the possibilities of the social situation and to discover what is to be done.