1 Hryhorii Skovoroda University in Pereiaslav (Pereiaslav, Ukraine)
2 Hryhorii Skovoroda University in Pereiaslav (Pereiaslav, Ukraine)
3 Hryhorii Skovoroda University in Pereiaslav (Pereiaslav, Ukraine)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29202/phil-cosm/26/8
Received: 5 November 2020 / Accepted: 17 December 2020 / Published: 29 January 2021
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Abstract
The present research reveals the nature of moral philosophy in the human universe based on retrospective analysis and synthesis of the positions of modern sciences related to the problem of scientific searching practices and offers the author’s concept. In the process of achieving the pursued goal, the raised problem is actualized through the prism of a view on the activities of the relevant scientific communities, in particular, AME, APNME, ESMP — associations of moral education and moral philosophy, which study various aspects of moral development and highlight the results in the journals founded by them: Journal of Moral Education, Journal of Moral Philosophy, Philosophical News, Moral Capital. Based on the retrospective study of moral philosophy in the human universe, it is proven that for many centuries, philosophers-moralists have been trying to clarify the specifics of the world of human freedom, their confession of moral norms, and rules accepted in society. Based on the analysis of modern paradigms of moral philosophy and moral psychology, which are related to each other, it is established that the universe contributes to the identification of moral values and their acceptance in the internal plan of human actions. The scientific research results made it possible to outline the author’s concept of the studied phenomenon and determine its main components. It is established that the basis of the universe in its significance for man provides an interaction process that is directly reflected in the formation of moral consciousness, the basis of which is moral philosophy with a system of moral values. In turn, this affects the formation of man’s moral self-consciousness, which contains such constructs as moral intuition, moral judgments, and moral behavior. In conclusion, it is postulated that man as a part of the single whole world acts as a builder of their own moral being, creating their moral “I” and producing their universe.
Keywords: moral philosophy, human universe, moral values, moral consciousness, moral selfconsciousness, moral intuition, moral judgments, moral behavior
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