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Marx and Kant: Historical Materialism in Search of a Theory of Morality
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Marx and Kant: Historical Materialism in Search of a Theory of Morality
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S086904990012624-8-
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10.31857/S086904990012624-8
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Authors
Vladimir Sidorin 
Affiliation: Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow
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Issue 6
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136-145
Abstract

The article considers an attempt to synthesize the Marxist approach and Neo-Kantianism, represented in the works of K. Vorländer, C. Schmidt, L. Woltmann and E. Bernstein. These attempts were made in the context of discussions about the necessity and possibility of elaborating a moral theory that complements socialist social and political philosophy and, at the same time, opposes the former “metaphysics of morals” and theistic justifications of morality. It is shown that the Neo-Kantian movement in socialism, usually associated with the desire to justify the socialist ideal using concepts and principles of Kant’s ethics, was in fact much broader and included attempts to use the theory of knowledge, the philosophical-historical and social-philosophical views of the German thinker and the general critical pathos of his creative heritage.

Keywords
historical materialism, moral theory, I. Kant’s philosophy, Neo-Kantianism, K. Vorländer, L. Woltman, C. Schmidt.
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The research is supported by Russian Science Foundation within the framework of the scientific project no. 19-18-00441 (“The Phenomenon of Evil: from Metaphysics to Moral Theories”).
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29.12.2020
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29.12.2020
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