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Chapter 3. HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF ETHICS

A person chooses one's own destiny by committing good or bad actions.

Plato

When morality is not perfected, and what is learned is not repeated, then

unkind actions cannot be redeemed.

Confucius

To understand the current state of thought, the surest way is to recall how

humanity arrived at it.

A.I. Herzen

The peculiarity of the historical development of philosophical and ethical teachings, spiritual and value systems among different peoples is that they all concentrate and conceptualize the experience of the communal life and activities of people during a particular epoch. At the same time, they extend beyond the frames of any lifetime outlined by history and aspire to eternity. In their highest humanistic expression, all these teachings are revealed in the evolutionary spiritualization of people's consciousness, the renewal of the semantic essence of their interpersonal communication and behavior on the basis of the philosophy of justice and nonviolence. The world history of humane relations in the spiritual world of people summarizes all the most important philosophical achievements and scientific discoveries of a particular historical epoch, contributing to the disclosure and further development of national and universal human connections and relations. This is the essence of social development, which depends on people's conscious choice of the ways and means of their life and activity, without which the full disclosure of their creative and constructive potential is impossible in principle.

Certainly, judgments about various types and forms of humane values of people - good, fairness, beauty, justice, conscience, etc., were already considered by the creators of the ancient philosophy. All these and other humane values were developed and justified during the emergence of ethics science. Historically, ethical thought among all peoples of the world, regardless of the fate of political and economic vicissitudes, is closely interrelated with philosophy. Initially, it was based on mythological and religious ideas about the

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