MORALIZING AND VIOLENCE FROM LOGICAL AND SEMANTIC POINT OF VIEW
Abstract
Ethics, like many other spheres of our life, has a certain possibility of self-denial. Th e desire to overcome evil oft en results in even worse evil. From the author`s point of view, the reason for this phenomenon is not evil or selfi sh will, but a form of moral functioning. Th e moral discourse consists of imperatives that are not applicable to a particular case, but to a class of cases. Th e fi rst peculiarity of the semantics of imperatives is to change the direction of correspondence between words and the world: the world must correspond to the words rather than words must correspond to the world. Th e second peculiarity of the semantics of imperatives is the transfer of responsibility for the correspondence between words and the world from speaker to listener. In such a situation, violence is a kind of proof of the “validity” of moral statements.
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ethics, violence, semantics, pragmatics, logic, proof
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