A ética do medo na modernidade: análise do princípio da responsabilidade à luz da sociedade de risco ambiental

Abstract

Modernity, along its journey, has brought forward a series of unprecedented challenges, which require a thorough study of the results produced. This fact is due, primarily, to the wide development of scientism, which with an air of certainty and predictability, sometimes neglects the necessary ethical and moral reflection of events. For this purpose, a bibliographic methodology, with the following question as the guiding question: in view of the complexity provided by the configuration of the Risk Society, which parameter should be adopted to assess the responsibility of social actors? In this way, through the hypothetical-deductive method, the present work deigns to carry out a research in addition to legal, also sociological and philosophical on the Principle of Responsibility in the midst of the Environmental Risk Society. The incompatibility of the current provision of Responsibility in the Brazilian legal system was concluded, among them the misunderstanding about the unpredictability as inherent to the risk and the extent of the damages, which are unable to be fully measured.