Ethological sources of ethics. On the philosophical foundation of morality

Abstract

The article is prompted by Edmund Husserl's attempt to renew the idea of European rationalism. Husserl  attributed the  failure of the idea  to the digression of  ratio from the sphere of everyday life, to the loss of its ethical origin. The author attempts to take in the  meaning of this source relationship   viewed as the basis for being-in-the-world and the existential consequences of the process initiated by  Descartes of rendering the  ratio barren, in a way,  due to the gradual departure from its source meaning present in the Greek  word  λόγος (logos). Following Husserl , the author also presents  the impact of this process on rational interpretation of reality, and formulates  the thesis that civilization built on an impoverished idea of rationality  touches man’s essential interests, setting   his life in an expanding  existential emptiness.