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This paper explores the role that the recognition of the other plays for morality in Raimond Gaita's Good and Evil: An Absolute Conception, from the centrality of the notion of remorse, understood as the remembrance of moral meaning for the agent of what he did. The examples from which Gaita intends to emphasize the weight of morality and the meaning of doing evil morally for someone will be rescued. One can not understand, according to the philosopher, a situation as morally problematic if it is not intelligible that whoever realized it should feel a genuine remorse in the face of the evil generated by their actions.

The present work is based on a fundamental theme within the set of Nietzsche's thought: the theme of Destiny. If Fate is seen as something previously decided in relation to the most diverse situations, then Nietzsche's philosophy runs into an aporia, that of having to face the problem of determinism, which touches one of the greatest obstacles of culture: morality. In the moral sphere, everything is ordered and determined. In this sense, the development of this research is oriented towards a deepening of the philosophical implications related to Destiny. Faced with becoming the particular organization of impulses, Destiny loses the sense of predetermination and ready and finished decision on different situations. To what extent does talking about Destiny, within the scope of Nietzschean thought, imply openness to plenitude, beyond all forms of determinism?

Circumscribing the scope in which atheism can be understood, namely, in the sphere of customs, religious, political and theological conventions, and even in the field of temperaments and characters, from Pensées diverses sur la comète to Continuation des Pensées sur la comète, and the Réponse aux quéstions d'un Provincial Bayle erects, substantiates and radicalizes the link between atheism and virtue, understanding here atheism under a practical approach, that is, in relation to the attitude of those who live as if a god did not exist, minimizing the value of its effectiveness over human conduct. However, such a position is no less endowed with virtue, once such a term is understood as a perpetual disposition to perform certain moral acts and having as purpose the acts of practical life, such as justice, honesty, courage, friendship, among others.