Ética, tradução e justiça nos pensamentos de Alasdair Macintyre e James Boyd White

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the viability of a synthesis between the thoughts of James Boyd White and Alasdair MacIntyre with regard to a legal model based on a communitarian narrativism based on the practice of translation. Based on a bibliographical research of the aforementioned authors, the work proposes to face the problems arising from the assumption of the postmodern societas model, in which the person considered as an individual has lost the references of tradition and, consequently, the possibility of solving moral questions through the exercise of practical rationality. In this endeavor, the work assumes the premise, in an Aristotelian line, that the distinction between morals and ethics is innocuous, since the object of analysis of the two fields is identical. Thus, the first chapter presents the foundations of this problem from a historical-sociological path brought by MacIntyre in which the need for a return to a communitas based on the development of a neo- Aristotelian ethics of virtues is indicated. After that, in the second chapter, James Boyd White's proposals are brought for the re-reading of this individual from a perception of language as engaging ethical commitments between the communities that this person inhabits. In addition, the third chapter presents the considerations of the two authors regarding the practice of translation as an ethical commitment to a communitas, in order to conclude with the possibility of using the authors' thinking in this ethical translation as a means of facing the problem of universality of morals.