Bien y naturaleza: algunas coincidencias entre Robert Spaemann y Charles Taylor

Abstract

This paper intends to show some fundamental similarities between the concepts of good and nature (nucleus of identity), present in Spaemann and Taylor. The recognition of goods and actions that do justice to human nature (understood in a teleological sense) and preserve its identity, is made by developing or cultivating feelings that respect the meaning of the self and of the rest of reality. We discover this meaning because of our rationality, which translates feelings into words. It is within language that the self is self-defined, and it is also within language that we recognize those goods which are indispensable to lead a fully human life.