title: Ethics outside of morals: Modern German humanism
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metadata.value: Korostichenko, Ekaterina I.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-03-10T09:29:48Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-03-10T09:29:48Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Korostichenko E. I. Ethics outside of morals: Modern German humanism. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2021, vol. 37, issue 4, pp. 607–622.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2021.403
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/35589
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article reviews the ethics of evolutionary humanism, as expressed in the works of the
  modern German philosopher and critic of religion Michael Schmidt-Salomon. Drawing on
  the modern results of biological sciences, he provides his own interpretation of the sociobiological
  meaning of altruism and egoism as foundations of human ethics. Appealing to
  philosophical tradition, he finds support in the views of Epicurus who considered egoism and
  altruism as being connected within human nature, and saw altruistic acts as rooted in egoism.
  As a part of his concept of evolutionary humanism, Schmidt-Salomon presents an alternative
  to the biblical Ten Commandments in the form of recommendations “for a happy human
  life”. His theory also includes a kind of “categorical imperative”, which strongly resembles
  the Marxist formulation of humanism: “destroy all relationships in which the human being
  poses as a humiliated, enslaved, abandoned and solitary being”. Special attention is paid to the
  author’s approach to the separation of morality and ethics. The declared ethics of evolutionary
  humanism is not based on any norms of behavior, it considers only the cases when the
  interests of two or more individuals conflict and aims at a “fair” resolution of such conflicts.
  Schmidt-Salomon postulates the uselessness of morality in the presence of such constructed
  ethics. Some consequences of this are the human right for self-determination, and similar
  rights granted to animals. Schmidt-Salomon’s criticism of religious ethics is also reviewed.
  The ethics of evolutionary humanism are found to be somewhat contradictory. In addition to
  narrow-defined ethics limited to conflicts of interest, the theory actually includes both deontological
  statements and extensive virtue-based ethics.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The study was funded by a grant supported by the Ministry of Education and Science in conjunction
  with the Council on Grants of the President of the Russian Federation for State Support of Young Russian
  Scientists (MK-4357.2021.2, “Towards Dialogue: Discussions about Religion and the Church in a Secular
  Public Space”), 2021-2023.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 37; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: atheism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: humanism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: evolutionary humanism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Michael Schmidt-Salomon
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Epicurus
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ethics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: morality
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: evolutionary ethics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: altruism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: egoism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Ethics outside of morals: Modern German humanism
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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