RUDN Journal of Philosophy (Dec 2014)

Notion of the ethical Issues in A. Badiou’s work “Ethics: an Essay on the Understanding of Evil”

  • A A Kosorukova,
  • T V Davydkina

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 0, no. 2
pp. 50 – 57

Abstract

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Article is devoted to considering the notion of ethical issues in a situation of post-modern philosophizing (with its denying the repeating the identical and accentuation the idea of finding unique situation). The paper focuses on the basis of the ethics of truths of A. Badiou in his theory of the event that assumes the understanding of the man as the subject of approving the ability to overcome the «being-to-death» (that determines the specificity of the subject of ethical inquiry).

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