PHILOSOPHY. CONFLICT STUDIES. CULTURE STUDIES. RELIGIOUS STUDIES.
Issue 1, 2014
CONTENTS
| Section | PHILOSOPHY | ||
| Codes UDC | 17.022 | Page | 5-11 |
| Title | Moralizing and violence from logical and semantic point of view | ||
| Author 1 | Brodsky Alexander I. | St.Petersburg State University 199034, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation; Doctor of Philosophy, Professor e-mail: abrodsky59@mail.ru |
|
| Summary | Ethics, like many other spheres of our life, has a certain possibility of self-denial. Thdesire to overcome eviloften results in even worse evil. From the author`s point of view, the reason for this phenomenon is not evil or selfish will, but a form of moral functioning. The moral discourse consists of imperatives that are not applicable to a particular case, but to a class of cases. The first peculiarity of the semantics of imperatives is to change the direction of correspondence between words and the world: the world must correspond to the words rather than words must correspond to the world. The second peculiarity of the semantics of imperatives is the transfer of responsibility for the correspondence between words and the world from speaker to listener. In such a situation, violence is a kind of proof of the �validity� of moral statements. | ||
| Keywords | ethics, violence, semantics, pragmatics, logic, proof. | ||