Проблеми сучасної психології (Mar 2018)

Moral deed as a meaning of life: by tragic ways of history

  • O. V. Osyka,
  • K. S. Osyka

DOI
https://doi.org/10.32626/2227-6246.2018-40.284-294
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 40
pp. 284 – 294

Abstract

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The article deals with the system of moral deeds committed heroically and devotedly by the worthy of the world during the Holocaust, who saved human lives. In detail, on concrete examples, the humanistic and altruistic nature of the behavior and the people’s deed world, people, who, risking their own lives and the lives of their loved ones, helped others, has been proved. The good deed was shown to contribute to the moral formation of both an individual and entire ethnic groups, triumphantly creating the foundations of hope, faith and love. It is noted that moral act as the meaning of life is born and appears in inhuman conditions, surrounded by signs of the contemporary life, but in the plane of existence of a high human spirit: strong, beautiful, invincible, unborn, immortal. The worthy people of the world used all their capabilities, potential, original life steps and situations in order to achieve the high goal: the preservation of unique human life. Polish physician Y. Lazovskyi, skillfully using the real threat of typhoid infestation, saved many people from death in concentration camps. Throughout his conscious life, I. Sandler helped poor Jewish children, sick and disadvantaged, she and her friends used original and effective means of salvation to free Jewish children from the ghetto. Animals are involved in this noble cause, working creatively, persistently, responsibly and inspiringly. Risking their own lives, they become true heroes and the worthy of the animal world. Together with people they oppose the brutal fighter system of persecution and torture, abuse and insanity. And they overcome it boldly, because otherwise they can not live, but a good dog heart and compassion for the neighbor does not allow. Saida Arifova saved Jewish orphans by teaching them to pray in the Crimean Tatar language.

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