Categories of morality

Categories of morality
Death
One of the conditions to evaluate your life: happy or not, free, moral, etc. or not?
J. Derrida: life is always too short for a man;
Connection to a human being;
Modern and “old” civilizations: attitudes to death;

Categories of morality
S. Lem: “impersonalization of death” today;
- Refusal from capital punishment;
Reason for this process is a fear and helplessness of people facing death;
M. Heidegger: death process is degraded in our mind;
We understand that “human” is mortal, but it is not me.

Categories of morality
Science servers the purpose of “postponing” death: is it good? Or bad?
Religious attitudes to death;
Freedom to choose death;
Looking at the world “through” death: what does it mean?
Death as the highest level of responsibility.

Categories of morality
Death inside of every moment;
“Who learned to die, he learned not to be a slave” – M. Montenues;
J. Derrida: “a gift to obtain yourself”;
A need of studying of death (from ethical/philosophical view;

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Creativity
Often a synonym of happiness;
Perfection of oneself;
A way to avoid loneliness;
a way to contribute society;
A way to produce a masterpiece;
A genius way that force one to see and find

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Faith
An ability of a super-sensual experience;
Religion as one of the ways;
A faith into a human being and oneself.

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Love:-
- different types;
A religious perception of another human;
An ability to love;
an instinct;
Only a metaphysical basis;
F. Dostoyevsky: another ability to love.

Categories of morality
Sense of life:
People were trying to find a universal idea to answer this question;
N. Berdyaev: all human intentions failed: from medieval up to the 20th c.’
Through tragic perception of life people move to creativity, mission, faith, etc.

Categories of morality
Sense of life:
We put different aims in order to perfect and complete life;
Inside moral criteria of our life sense: to act good;
Outside criteria of the sense of life: power, wealth, glory, etc.
Sense of life is not given, but settled. It is a struggle against the senseless life (S. Frank, “Sense of Life”).