Las claves de la moralidad. Una alternativa a las fuentes de la moralidad

The theory of the sources of morality is one of the most common ways of explaining how to determine the morality of an action. The object responds to what is done, the end to the intention with which it is done, and the circumstances provide the context. This theory, however, presents significant problems. This article first points out some of these problems; then it proposes an alternative view, which is called the keys of morality, and which consists of four elements: the objective, the act that happens, the objectives of connected actions, and the adequate description of the action and its objective. Finally, we conclude by applying these criteria to two cases to show how they would operate and to be able to check their validity.