Ethical criteria of civilisational choice

Abstract. The article discusses the understanding of civilizational choice as a sequence of political, social, cultural and other historical events. An assessment is made of the scale of social actions aimed at the civilizational reversal of society. The authors attempted to assess the risks of civilizational choice along the social vertical, using previously developed theoretical models of social risks for a socially heterogeneous society. In the course of the study, different phenomena related to the solution of the problem of ethics of civilizational choice were considered.

Keywords: civilizational choice, social risks, freedom, evolution, ethical assessment

Publication in: ukr | rus

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Received 12.01.2019