This philosophical work addresses the problems of ethical cognition, freedom, creativity, and personality, as well as the problems of good and evil. The author identifies three stages in the evolution of ethics: the ethics of law, the ethics of redemption, and the ethics of creativity. Ethics of creativity as such is based on the defense, rethinking, and renewal of the principle of personal freedom—this is the highest and most mature form of human moral consciousness.
In a person lies the riddle of being and the riddle of knowledge. Indeed, the human being is the mysterious creature from the world incomprehensible in itself—only through the human being is that breakthrough to true being possible. A person is the bearer of meaning, and yet the person is also a fallen being, in whom meaning is profaned.
But such a fall is real only from the height—therefore the fall itself is a sign of height and greatness…