From Kant to Frank: The Ethic of Duty and the Problem of Resistance to Evil in Russian Thought
One of the key ethical debates in Russian religious thought, initiated by Leo Tolstoy, concerned the question of nonresistance to evil by force. The purpose of this article is to assess the influence of Kant’s ethics and philosophy of religion on the course of this debate and to determine the place and significance of the arguments and considerations expressed on this issue by ...
The imago image of ‘flowers of evil’: from Charles Baudelaire to Joris-Karl Huysmans
This article examines the image of 'flowers of evil' as an imago image — an imaginary image of a real object. The term 'imago' was first used in this sense by Carl Jung in 1912. The work proposes a novel approach to investigating the image of 'flowers of evil'. The comparative historical, analytical ...
The category of pity in «The Great Divorce» by C.S. Lewis and «The Lord of the Rings» by J.R.R. Tolkien
The article analyzes the main features of the category of pity in the texts of two inklings — C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien in the context of the ethical binary opposition of “good and evil”. This binary opposition is not randomly chosen: Lewis wrote “The Great Divorce” in order to refute the famous artistic idea of William Blake about a fruitful union or the marriage of Heaven and Hell, which personifies the creative mixture ...
The motif of temptation in G. G. Byron’s mystery play Cain
... to conclude that, striving for absolute freedom, the human being is incapable of protecting themselves from the spiritual captivity of passions and their soul cannot remain independent from such opposite forces as the light and the darkness, good and evil, god and the devil.
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2. Байрон Дж. Г. Каин (мистерия) / пер. И. Бунина // Байрон Дж. Г. Сочинения ...
Freedom as an axiological category in G. G. Byron’s mystery Cain
... images of Adam’s sons is based on the antithesis between the true and false freedom, whereas the general literary structure of the mystery is used to direct the reader to the conclusion that it is impossible for a human being to stay beyond good and evil.
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2. Бахтин М. М. Формы времени и хронотопа в романе : очерки ...
Is Spinoza’s Ethics Heteronomous in the Kantian Sense of the Term?
... Choice. The Review of Metaphysics, 52(2), pp. 267-294.
Zammito, J. H., 1992. The Genesis of Kant’s Critique of Judgment. London & Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Kant, Spinoza, autonomy, heteronomy, ethics, nature and freedom, good and evil.
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