“WORLD SORROW” IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMMON CASE: MORAL MEANING AND SUPERMORAL POTENTIAL

Annotation

The article examines the thematic fragment of the religious and philosophical content of the project for a Common cause, proposed by N. F. Fedorov (1829–1903). The subject of analytical consideration is one of the supporting categories of the Philosophy of cosmism — “world sorrow”. Using the method of content analysis, the moral intention of the concept of world grief is revealed, its active function is revealed in the context of the task of truly resolving the issue of “the death and life of man,” the ontological transformation of the world. The work analyzes Fedorov’s supramoralistic understanding of the topology and essence of the other world. At the same time, in a historical sense, world tribulation in the philosophy of cosmism is fundamentally different from the “Great Tribulation”, accepted in Christian eschatology as an apocalyptic state of the world. It is emphasized that the philosophy of the common cause calls for genuine enlightenment based on specific, active knowledge; puts forward the demand for a “great synthesis” of science, art and religion.

Keywords

N. F. Fedorov, philosophy of cosmism, moral, supramoralism, cosmosophy, common cause, world sorrow

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