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Can man realize himself as a human being and a person in situations of injustice and domination?

coexist and coexist, but build a life together through shared projects. Therefore, if it can be affirmed that these regulatory codes contribute to the construction of a civil ethics, because by common sense these codes and regulations are always aimed at the welfare and happiness of the human being, even if they are modified, new codes are created.

Civil Ethics is presented as a new attempt to build a universal ethic. This proposal thus aims to seek ethical minimums shared between men and women. It presupposes: a) the confessionalism of society, b) the possibility of a purely rational ethic, c) that humans live their ethics of happiness and we cannot expect them to be shared. Civil Ethics aims to ensure ethical minimums shared by all, which are the basis for our legislation. It does not pretend to be an ethics independent of other ethics, but assumes them, since men and women live in their reality, their ethics of happiness or of maximums.

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An example of this question can be found in the film "Until the Last Man". In it we can note that the protagonist had already faced different codes and parameters that regulated the good behavior of a man, in his personal life, and surely also those that regulated the good behavior of a soldier, in his military life. These regulations served as a basis for him to be able to create an ethical standard and his own morality, according to what he considered valid or invalid of each one. In the case of military rules, surely they recognized that a good soldier was the one who could win the battle and therefore defeat his enemy, but we can see that the protagonist even meets one of his enemies who is wounded and instead of killing him or letting him die decides to help him. In this case he did not consider those rules as valid and drew his own rules, according to what he considered morally good.

Can man realize himself as a human being and a person in situations of injustice and

domination?

In situations where man is confronted with injustice and domination one can say, in general terms, that it is more difficult for him to achieve full realization as a human being and as a person, because this situation demands of him a greater effort to attain the characteristics that

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