%0 Journal Article %T Ethos sem ¨¦tica: a perspectiva cr¨ªtica de T.W.Adorno e M.Horkheimer %A Last¨®ria %A Luiz A. Calmon Nabuco %J Educa£¿£¿o & Sociedade %D 2001 %I Centro de Estudos Educa??o e Sociedade, CEDES %R 10.1590/S0101-73302001000300004 %X the purpose of this article is to present the reasons why t. w. adorno and m. horkheimer did not consider the philosophical problem of morality, in contemporary societies, in terms of an ethical theory. therefore, in these authors' views, ethics acquires the dimension of an impulse that becomes effective as a rational critique to a supposedly enlightened rationality. %K ethics %K criticism %K elucidation %K culture %K myth. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0101-73302001000300004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en