THE RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN WAR AS A CHALLENGE TO THE IMPERATIVE “HUMAN DIGNITY – RESPECT FOR NATURE”
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https://doi.org/10.15407/fd2025.03.074Keywords:
discourse, responsibility, war, human dignity, respect for nature, сonnatural world, connatural universe, global catastrophe, value-normative orderAbstract
The article examines moral and ecological problems in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian war as a challenge to the imperative “human dignity – respect for nature”. In particular, the author discusses the predictions of prominent contemporary philosophers (K.-O. Apel, H. Jonas, H. Küng, etc.) regarding risks of a global ecological catastrophe, as well as their warnings about the possibility of the destruction of humanity as a result of a global nuclear war. Putting forward the concepts of “rehabilitation of practical philosophy”, according to which moral and ethical affiliations would become the unifying factor between man and the environment, they directed their efforts towards the scientific substantiation and practical formation of a new moral and ethical and political and legal world order as a value-normative safeguard against global catastrophe. The article notes that the Russian-Ukrainian war, aimed not only at the destruction of Ukrainians as an ethnic group, but also at the destruction of their natural and cultural environment, is not only genocide, but also ecocide of the Ukrainian people.
The text also states that the Russian authorities, by placing current Russian legislation above international law, violate not only agreements that regulate relations between states, but also international agreements on environmental protection. The concept of the “Connatural World” of both man nature as a “Related Universe” is proposed in the article as a methodological paradigm in solving global environmental problems. It is also considered as a factor in the rehabilitation of the significance of moral and ethical belongings, which are motivating components of achieving victory in the Russian-Ukrainian war and restoring their cultural and natural environment by Ukrainians.
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