El ‘hombre entero’ de Simmel: una crítica de las bases antropológicas de la ética kantiana y de la economía monetaria

Abstract

This paper aims at demonstrating that in light of Simmel’s concept of ‘whole man’ or‘personality’ a certain structural isomorphism between the kantian ethical man and the economicmodern man becomes apparent. We analyze in the first place the criticism which Simmel directs from that concept at the anthropological conception presupposed in the kantianethics. In the second place, we examine the relation generated between man and cultureas a consequence of the development of money economy and of what Simmel calls ‘tragedyof culture’, seeking to demonstrate that the mentioned relation produces a type of individualitywhich, from the whole man’s point of view, appears as equivalent to the one presupposedin the kantian ethics. Finally, we compare the ways of valuation of kantian ethics and moneyeconomy with the type of normativity that suits the whole man.