PHILOSOPHY. CONFLICT STUDIES. CULTURE STUDIES. RELIGIOUS STUDIES.
Issue 1, 2014
CONTENTS
| Section | PHILOSOPHY | ||
| Codes UDC | 17.02 | Page | 27-36 |
| Title | Concept of Morality: from absolutism to local systems | ||
| Author 1 | Levin Sergey M. | National Research University Higher School of Economics 199034, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation e-mail: serg.m.levin@gmail.com |
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| Summary | The paper discusses the causes of emergence and persistence of moral absolutism as an influential ethical and met�ethical theory. The author claims that oversimplification of moral problems is closely related to their individualistic interpretations, which means that subject�s ethical choice may be analyzed apart from its social and naturalistic context. The article suggests the concept of local moral systems as a means to overcome moral absolutism. This concept denies existence of any distinct and unified moral entity and proposes existences of parallel and not necessarily correlated processes aimed at forming multileveled socio-biological regulations of behavior of members of some groups of individuals. | ||
| Keywords | moral absolutism, evolution, metaethics, intersubjectivity. | ||