MORAL SCIENTIFIC HABITUS: THEORETICAL CODIFICATION AND FEATURES OF FORMATION

Abstract

The paper presents the features of formation and the theoretical codifications of moral scientific habitus. The introduction of the notion of «moral habitus» is related not only to the interpretation of the subjective basis of scientific practice as a set of cognitive, behavioral, value and emotional dispositions, but also to the question: where and how moral dispositions exist? It is shown that the value dispositions on the one hand are at the level of practical implementation, which is always situational and uncertain, on the other hand – at the level of discourse about them. The first basic phenomenological level is fixed by the notion of «moral habitus». The author argues that moral habitus, representing the mode of practical dispositions, which have an ethical orientation, assumes the existence of the social mechanisms of formation, among which the special role belongs to the university as a place where the practice of production and the extension of dispositions are implemented. The cognitive dispositions become a necessary condition for moral habitus because its content is the need to anticipate long-term action consequences dictated by the principle of responsibility for the present and the future.

Keywords

• scientific practice, moral scientific habitus, theoretical codification, features of formation, university, principle of responsibility