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Toward the Civil Society: Political Dimension of the Human Being (H. Аrendt and М. Мamardashvili)
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Date of publication
11.06.2019
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2019
DOI
10.31857/S004287440005341-0
Toward the Civil Society: Political Dimension of the Human Being (H. Аrendt and М. Мamardashvili)
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The article is devoted to the comparison of the ideas of M. Mamardashvili and H. Arendt on the nature of thinking, morality, moral action and political action. Both of philosophers have done a great job, arguing that all people naturally strive for the Good. We find the origins of this topic already in philosophy of Socrates, who proposed to identify ratio and morality, and further, of course, in philosophy of Kant, who associates rationality with the ethical and with the political. Both Arendt and Mamardashvili rethink this problem on new grounds, determining where and how we can follow Kant's thought. Perhaps the striving for the Good is a blank (pure) form, empty of any content. It might be that our rational acts only serves as a vector, a technical tool and implement useful for the reach of the goal. But the formation of the goals (and values) themselves lay beyond the thinking. If thinking is able and, if so, to what extent, preserve mankind from turning to the path of evil? Is it a helper of Good, its opponent, or is it just neutral to it? On the way of comparing the approaches of the two thinkers, it is proved that the generic link between them is the idea of a special type of supernatural community and solidarity of people, as well as “continuing” thinking which appears as the only condition for the possibility of ethical reflection.

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D. Gasparyan
Associate Professor
School of Philosophy of National Research University Higher School of Economics
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