Abstract

The paper examines the phenomenological concept of pure ethics in Husserl’s thought. The formal laws, by which this ethics has its validation, must be “filled” with the contingent matter of motivational situations. The contingencies of factual life are necessary to universalize the duty. That is the reason by which, in phenomenological sense, pure ethics must be completed by a material ethics, considering, necessarily, the self realization and self determination of the human being.

Keywords: Pure ethics, motivational situations, practical reason, phenomenological ethics.