Viktor Malakhov, Dialogue in the New Time
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In early modern Protestantism, the idea of a calling—a calling that a person must fulfill, thereby responding to God, who, in fact, calls them—acquired pervasive significance. Actively overcoming obstacles, achieving goals, and achieving success in one's endeavors is the path to salvation and confirmation that one deserves it. "Only he is worthy of life and liberty who daily fights for them," asserted Faust. Goethe's great poem could well be called a poem about activity, and its protagonist accurately embodies how activity takes hold of a person and sets them on their own path. Why, then, did the concept of activity acquire a demonic tinge? Can a Faustian person have friends, interlocutors, communication partners, or neighbors? Is it possible to speak of a fully-fledged philosophy of communication in a culture obsessed with activity? Viktor Aronovich Malakhov reflects on this in the following lecture excerpt from the online course "The Idea of Dialogue: History, Theory, Life."
Viktor Aronovich Malakhov is a Doctor of Philosophy and professor. He has authored over 200 publications in the fields of ethics, the history of philosophy, and the philosophy of culture. He specializes in the theme of the Other, Dialogue, and the boundaries of communication. His books include: "Culture and Human Integrity" (1984), "The Vulnerability of Love" (2005), "The Ethics of Communication" (2006), "The Right to Be Yourself" (2008), "On This Side of Clarity: Notes, Reflections, Dreams" (2014), and "Nagarii Theatres" (2018). He is also the author of the textbook "Ethics: A Course of Lectures," first published in Kyiv in 1996 (there are currently five reprints).
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