Notion of the ethical Issues in A. Badiou’s work “Ethics: an Essay on the Understanding of Evil”
- Authors: Kosorukova AA1, Davydkina TV1
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Affiliations:
- Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia
- Issue: No 2 (2014)
- Pages: 50-57
- Section: Articles
- URL: https://journals.rudn.ru/philosophy/article/view/11444
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Abstract
Article is devoted to considering the notion of ethical issues in a situation of post-modern philosophizing (with its denying the repeating the identical and accentuation the idea of finding unique situation). The paper focuses on the basis of the ethics of truths of A. Badiou in his theory of the event that assumes the understanding of the man as the subject of approving the ability to overcome the «being-to-death» (that determines the specificity of the subject of ethical inquiry).
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A A Kosorukova
Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia
Email: a.kosorukova@yandex.ru
Department of Ethics Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
T V Davydkina
Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia
Email: davydkina.tanya@gmail.com
Department of Ethics Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences