Possibilities and Impossibilities of Intersection between Cosmoethic Principlology and Democratic Principles

Abstract

In the conscientiological discourse upon which cosmoethic principlology is based, two principles, among many others, are fundamental: “may the best happens to all” and “the thing that is not worth is not worth indeed”. Although such principles integrate the same discourse and are used to solve the same problem of moral order and simultaneously, both highlight completely opposite approaches. To better explain this opposition, such principles are brought closer, by analogy, to two philosophical trends which rival in the area of Ethics: utilitarianism, by Jeremy Bentham; and the Kantian Ethics, by Immanuel Kant. In view of that, the aim is to verify whether it is possible to make them compatible with the principles that inform the democratic political regime.