O conceito de ética para Marx e Engels

Abstract

Present paper aims to explain the concept of ethics to Marx and Engels. The article proposescomprehension of Marx’s and Engels’ ethics divided in two plans which communicate themselves. First ethical plan would be derived from dominant relations of production in capitalism, such as exploitation. This ethical plan would reveal undesirable values like heteronomy, disrespect, exploitation, authority relations and hierarchy, egoism, competition, alienation, brutalization, reduction of human beings to things. This ethical plan is criticized by authors. Second ethical plan would be derived from class conflict which fight against capitalist mode of production and would be composed by desirable values such as no exploitation, relations of equality among people, altruism, autonomy, respect, conscience, democracy and consideration among human beings.