What is “conscience”? An internal parasite voice? A neurotic part of consciousness? A sense of duty?
Dr. of Philosophy and Professor of NIU HSE Georgy Chernavin will explain!
This book by a modern philosopher studying the semantic structures of reality—Doctor of Philosophy and Professor at NIU HSE Georgy Chernavin—is devoted to the phenomenon of “a resemblance of conscience”: false and/or deluded conscience.
The author proposes a concept of “a resemblance of conscience”—a parasitic form of the inner voice that feeds the neurotic feeling of guilt and whispers demands for an undeserved duty.
The topic is explored through material from classical Russian literature (Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Shklovsky, and others), as well as relying on medieval typologies of conscience and developments of this topic by Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and Kolnai.
The research is accompanied by a discussion with modern Russian philosophers.