‘Morals’, ‘Morality’ and Moral and Legal Duty of Veracity

Abstract

The article is devoted to the conceptual analysis of such basic ethical terms as morals and morality. The author presents a hypothesis of origin of the Russian concept morality (nravstvennost’) in the late 18th century and gives a comparative analysis of concepts dignity and Würdigkeit as fundamental concepts of moral consciousness. The author also analyses attitude to forced un- truth in the Russian moral-religious philosophy of the second half of the 19th and early 20th century.