Сила этики: непреходящее (к юбилею А.А. Гусейнова)

Вопросы философии. 2024. № 5. С. 81–89.

Klimova S.

The article deals with modern ethical collisions, the struggle between various
kinds of utilitarian ethics and ethics of duty. The author considers Kant’s ethics
as a universal and valuable basis of worldview, characteristic of domestic philosophy as a whole, and, at the same time, relies on the basic ideas of Abdusalam
Guseynov’s ethical doctrine. The latter, at all stages of his work, develops
humanistic implications of Kantian ethics. His ethics acts as a practical form
of the theory of absolute morality of the subject. Humanity, in its concrete manifestation, is the most important principle of constructing both ethics in general
and the ethics of non-violence in particular. Non-violence is the most important
component of moral teachings in all world religions and forms the central point
of the practical philosophy by L.N. Tolstoy, M.L. King, and M. Gandhi. Despite
the difference in their biographies and life activities, they all argue that the ideals
of life and violent ways of achieving them are fundamentally incompatible. Also,
they understood the meaning of life in a similar way – not as an abstract theoretical postulate, but as a concrete practical action. It is practice, understood
in the Bakhtinian sense that becomes a clear proof of the enduring power of ethics.
The article is dedicated to the anniversary of Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Abdusalam Guseynov, whose ethical research is the core of his
creative biography.
 

Keywords: Leo Tolstoy, А.А. Гусейнов, Л. Н. Толстой, Махатма Ганди, Gandi, Guseynov, ethics of nonviolence, этика ненасилия

Publication based on the results of: Cultural memory as a subject of historical and philosophical analysis and modern problems of studies (2024)