Essay on Phenomenological Ethics of Tschiževskij

Abstract

The article attempts to reconstruct the main arguments formulated by D.I.Tschiževskij in his unfinished work on ethical formalism criticism. Tschiževskij’s ethical theory focuses on individual moral subject’s ontology and analyses it from Husserl’s phenomenology perspective. Tschiževskij applies some ontological and logical arguments to criticise ethical formalism, i.e. positing the universal law idea as a foundation of ethics, as a conception that disregards the concrete individual being faced a moral dilemma.