A interdependência entre ética e economia: uma análise crítico-construtiva da relação fato e valor em Sen e Putnam.

Abstract

The scope of this work is, at first, developing considerations around the premise, advocated by Amartya Sen, that the economy from its earliest origins has always been understood as an offshoot of ethics, being both spheres (ethics and economics) interrelated; and that this supposed "divorce" has origins in modernity, which followed two economistic lines: the line that Sen calls the "ethics" and the "enginer", with the notable subsequent dominance of the latter. In this sense, based on the writings of Sen, namely the works: "On ethics and economics" and "Development as Freedom", as well as in the work of Hilary Putnam, "The collapse of Truth" (among other authors) we seek to investigate why this split, their problems and implications regarding both ethical as economic level, but also to investigate the epistemological origins of this rupture. Thus, we intend to take to limit the thesis of an alleged evaluative exemption present in the dominant economic theories exposing their weaknesses and possible performative contradictions found in his theoretical stuff, aiming to it, demonstrate that these economistic thesis investigated not only are not neutral (as seeks to sustain the problematic argument of value neutrality) but assume normative values inside; or leading to the ultimate consequences this thesis: are evaluative doctrines, only veiled by the coveted privileged status of formal sciences with what they want to be confused. Finally, we will present Sen's solution to these problems, based on his theory of 'capacity-building', which Putnam offers a philosophy of language that embraces and epistemically supports this enterprise, of which economics and ethics are intertwined domains and interdependent.