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Self-Assertion as the Principle of Ethics

Student: Kanavin Dmitrii

Supervisor: Alexei Gloukhov

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities

Educational Programme: Philosophy (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2021

The purpose of my work is to clarify the principle of ethics - the one essence of all Human activity. To achieve this goal, I turn to the most prominent, as I think, ethical thinkers in the history of classical European philosophy, who expressed their views on the existence and quality of the principle I am looking for, and through criticism (in both meanings of the word) of their works, as it were, I clean up the image of the principle I am looking for. These works include, first of all, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Spinoza's Ethics, and Kant's Critique of Practical Reason. The tasks of my research, therefore, are the critical consideration of these works, their analysis and building on their support my own hypothesis about the principle of ethics.

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