Olga Zubets

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My education is philosophical and I long for being a philosopher, not a sociologist or psycologist or anybody else. I see philosophy as self-sufficient thinking first of all, not as cognition. I am a senior researcher in The Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences and, according to Alexander Zinoviev, it is the best place and way of life for a philosopher.

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Ложь боги не лгут2 1 1

The article is devoted to the justification of the impossibility of lying within the moral space ... more The article is devoted to the justification of the impossibility of lying within the moral space and of its defense in moral philosophy. The author addresses Socrates and Kant as agreeing in two essential points: in seeing morality and lying as connected with the relation of a person towards oneself and in barring themselves from choosing lying as their own act. The author understands the main ethical question of Ancient Times as the question of being themselves the answer to which is given in the concept of action based on carrying back the origin of action to himself. Thus the question of the permissibility of lying becomes the question if it is possible to prefer Non-Being to Being. Article touches it through three subject-matters: on an action as an answer, on god’s not-lying, on speech as an action. Socrates describes different cases of telling lies with good aims and does not give any answer about its moral sanction. But he gives an absolute answer by stating that he never lies himself and by considering his action to be the most valid proof. The philosopher’s action appears to be the most decisive and absolutely undeniable answer to the inherent incompleteness of thinking which is not able to pass into an act. Tracing the initiative of action back to himself human being chooses not the human but the divine in himself. Therefore while he tells lies within the logic of substantive activity and politics, in the moral space does he acts as a divine one who does not lie being self-sufficient. Being an action speech is a moral phenomenon and a subject of moral philosophy. As an action it is self-sufficient and cannot be seen through gnoseology. Prohibition of lying (or impossibility of it within moral space) is the basic condition of both speech and human being as ζῴον λόγον ἔχον. For man there is no choice between truthfulness and lying but only between speech and silence, Kant’s reticence.

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The article provides an overview of the key events and ideas associated with the contemporary Rus... more The article provides an overview of the key events and ideas associated with the contemporary Russian ethics, as well as of publications significant to the theory of the discipline and the most sustained discussions. Notwithstanding the wide variety of topics, sets of problems, and ways of philosophizing that have emerged over the last two decades, this period is primarily characterised by a gradual conceptual polarisation and the development of two irreconcilable trends based on manifestly opposed foundations: the idea of the absoluteness of both morality and the individual responsible act, on the one hand, and the de-absolutisation of morality with individuals considered in actual situations of choice, on the other.

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