Protection of a human being as a moral principle

Regarding the article by N. Rozov

Abstract

Welcoming the idea of human protection proposed by N.S. Rozov as “the ethical core of humanism”, the author expresses doubts concerning a strategy chosen by Rozov for presenting anthroprostasy – a principle of protection of the human being. On the one hand, anthroprostasy has been reduced to not causing harm principle, specifically in its weak form compliance with the conditions that ensure the people’s good, and, on the other hand, to the efficacy of the political and legal order. Thus, the specific value-imperative content of anthroprostasy has been obscured. In a polemic with Rozov, the author argues that in order to reveal the actual normative-ethical content of the principle of anthroprostasy it is necessary to show its place among other moral principles (in the simplest version – justice and charity) and its role in relations of I – the Other – the Third.