Izvestiya of Saratov University.
ISSN 1819-7671 (Print)
ISSN 2542-1948 (Online)


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What is “universal” in the “universal law”? I. Kant’s ethics as a legacy of the androcentric tradition and the foundation of a just community

Introduction. I. Kant is a highly relevant thinker, therefore, a study of his philosophy on the subject of androcentrism is able to highlight the foundations of the modern era ethical contradictions. The purpose of the study is to find out to what extent the involvement of the androcentric tradition determined the ethics of I. Kant and to answer the question of whether it can still serve as the basis for a universal rational theory of a just society. Theoretical analysis.

I. Kant and B. V. Rauschenbach on cognition and morality: The contact points

In the XXI century, the humanity continues to actively transform the world, technological progress puts rationalism in the first place as a worldview. Of course, the balance between rationalism and irrationalism in one time dimension and cultural space is difficult to achieve, each of these types periodically prevails and therefore has a specific impact on culture. At the same time, periods of changing cognitive and value orientations may be accompanied by crisis phenomena of a moral and ethical nature.