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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Philosophy</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Philosophy</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Cерия: Философия</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-2302</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2408-8900</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">18143</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2313-2302-2018-22-1-76-84</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>HISTORY OF EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY AND CONTEMPORANEITY</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ИСТОРИЯ ЕВРОПЕЙСКОЙ ФИЛОСОФИИ И СОВРЕМЕННОСТЬ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Hegel, Plotinus, and the Problem of Evil</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Гегель и Плотин: проблема зла</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Sobolnikova</surname><given-names>E N</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Собольникова</surname><given-names>Елена Николаевна</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru">кандидат философских наук, доцент</bio><email>sobolnikova@list.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Proud</surname><given-names>D</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Прауд</surname><given-names>Дэвид</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru">магистр философии</bio><email>-</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Русская христианская гуманитарная академия</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff2"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Шеффилдский университет</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2018-12-15" publication-format="electronic"><day>15</day><month>12</month><year>2018</year></pub-date><volume>22</volume><issue>1</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">VOL 22, NO1 (2018)</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">ТОМ 22, №1 (2018)</issue-title><fpage>76</fpage><lpage>84</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2018-03-28"><day>28</day><month>03</month><year>2018</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2018, Sobolnikova E.N., Proud D.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2018, Собольникова Е.Н., Прауд Д.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2018</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Sobolnikova E.N., Proud D.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Собольникова Е.Н., Прауд Д.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/philosophy/article/view/18143">https://journals.rudn.ru/philosophy/article/view/18143</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en">The article begins by defining evil, rejecting proffered negative definitions, for example, evil is privation, from which little further insight is obtainable, nor progress to be made towards a resolution of the problem, in favor of a more a constructive definition of evil in terms of an abnegation of responsibility for, or commitment to, one’s dictions or actions. This is an attitude that is both irrational and unintelligible, enabling a connection to be made between Plotinus’ view of evil as unintelligible matter, that is, impassive and inactive nature; and Hegel’s view of evil as that which is real and active, but against reason. For Plotinus, evil is formless matter, matter that is unintelligible, separated from the intellect, unlimited because not bounded by conceptual categories; and hence, what is evil is all darkness. For Hegel, for whom the rational is actual and the actual is rational, evil is an irrational perversion of the world’s inner essential rationality. But these ideas can be connected, for the purpose of finding a solution to the problem of evil, through a more specific understanding of the concept that we offer; that evil is a failure of commitment, a denial of responsibility for one’s actions; and this is in itself both irrational and unintelligible. We can then demonstrate that what that evil, though it certainly exists, is imperfection, and the good, being rational, is already complete and fulfilled and firmly established in the world, and therefore evil cannot possibly oppose it from any position of equivalence; for the good is rational and therefore true, whereas evil is irrational and therefore false.</abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru">В статье исследуется одна из фундаментальных проблем философии - проблема зла, рассмотрение которой выходит за пределы этических концепций, приобретая метафизическое значение в философии Плотина и Гегеля, что позволяет дать более конструктивное определение зла с точки зрения отмены ответственности за свои решения или действия или приверженности к ним. Данный подход к исследованию проблемы зла позволяет установить связь между взглядами Плотина на зло, как следствие возникновения косности материи, не могущей полностью воспринять и воспроизвести совершенство и полноту эйдосов, порождаемых Благом Единым; и взглядами Гегеля на проблему возникновения зла как одного из действующих моментов диалектического противоречия, отождествляемого с творческим источником мирового бытия и процесса становления. Для Плотина зло - это бесформенная материя, которая отделена от интеллекта, она не ограничена концептуальными категориями, тогда как для Гегеля, для которого рациональное является действительным, а действительное - рациональным, зло выступает как иррациональное извращение внутренней сущностной рациональности мира. Но эти идеи взаимосвязаны, поскольку зло можно трактовать и как метафизическую сущность, и как этический выбор субъекта связанный с отказом от обязательств, отрицанием ответственности за свои действия; что само по себе иррационально и одновременно ложно.</trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Hegel</kwd><kwd>Plotinus</kwd><kwd>neoplatonism</kwd><kwd>evil</kwd><kwd>ethics</kwd><kwd>logic</kwd><kwd>dialectic</kwd><kwd>metaphysics</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>Гегель</kwd><kwd>Плотин</kwd><kwd>неоплатонизм</kwd><kwd>зло</kwd><kwd>этика</kwd><kwd>логика</kwd><kwd>диалектика</kwd><kwd>метафизика</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Hegel GWF. Elements of the Philosophy of Right, trans. by H.B. Nisbet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 1991.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B2"><label>2.</label><mixed-citation>Hegel GWF. Philosophy of History, trans. by J. Sibree. 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