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ОТНОСНО ГЕНЕАЛОГИЯТА НА ЕТИЧЕСКИЯ ДИСКУРС НА МОДЕРНОСТТА
Hristo Hristov – On the Genealogy of the Ethical Discourse of Modernity

Author(s): Hristo Hristov
Subject(s): History of Philosophy, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Philosophy of Middle Ages, Societal Essay
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН
Keywords: Victorian Age; utilitarian moral philosophy; ethical discourse of modernity

Summary/Abstract: The main aim of the article is to argue the existence of a necessary link between the expansion of utilitarianism in the Victorian-Age and the problems we find today in the ethical thinking of modern liberal democratic societies, whose fundamental institutions and structural changes of the public field are still, to a certain degree, under the sway of that influential philosophical doctrine. In pursuing this aim, I make a closer study of the utilitarian philosophy of Henry Sidgwick, insofar as he is the main representative of utilitarianism in the late Victorian Age. Moreover, Sidgwick is the ethical philosopher who succeeded in adapting the system of classical utilitarianism to the dynamically changing world of the late 19th century. He was one of the first modern philosophers whose works established conditions for the emergence of the analytical tradition in ethics. Due to this, we must have a clearer understanding of the specific changes in the body of utilitarian ethics in the late Victorian Аge that brought about the emergence of today’s modern ethical discourse.

  • Issue Year: XXVI/2017
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 35-50
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English, Bulgarian