Moral Act and Moral Action: Valuation Criteria
Keywords:
Applied ethics, moral act, negative act, self-improving individual, moral action, ethical minimum, small deed, responsible deed, easy-to-follow action, cumulative effectAbstract
The article is focused on the problem of moral valuation of individual action in real moral practice. Accepting the idea of topological discrimination between individual and social spheres of morality the author analyzes individual actions in every-day cases according to criteria, which are relevant to individual and social ethics.