Moral Philosophy and Ethics

The paper proposes an idea that moral philosophy and ethical theory are congruent with each other in their subject, but differ in their methods: the first one grasps a human act from the inside in its primary moral genesis, while the second one studies morality in its outward objectified forms. The author bases this view on his own interpretation of Mikhail Bakhtin’s moral philosophy, presented in his early works «Toward a Philosophy of the Act and Author» and «Author and Hero in Aesthetic Activity». The opposite sides of an act, which is rooted in a living individual with one side and in culture with another one, acquire the inner character and entirety through personal moral responsibility

Art · Epistemology · HERO · Literature · Moral character · Moral philosophy · Moral psychology · Moral reasoning · Moral responsibility · Morality · Normative ethics · Sociology · Education, Literature, Philosophy Research · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies