ETHICS OF KANT AND THE HERESY OF HUMAN WORSHIP.

Abstract

The article examines Kant's understanding of ethics and the origin of his categories of morality. Particular attention is paid to the category of disgust, which is a kind of exception in Kantian ethics, since it is in no way derived from reason and the transcendental unity of apperception. Here Kant refers to feelings, and in general to some kind of irrational categories. The irrational category of disgust is used by Kant in those places where he argues the prohibition of suicide and the prohibition of such acts, which he characterized as “crimina carnis contra naturam”. Kant calls the prohibition of suicide the first ethical prohibition on which all obligations to oneself are based. Hence, it can be assumed that the rational Kantian ethics stands on a rather irrational foundation, which is the category of disgust. The prohibition of suicide is a basic Christian prohibition, Augustine calls it the most serious sin, since repentance is physically impossible here. It can be assumed that Kant in this case proceeds from such a dogmatic premise. But Kant himself argues this prohibition differently, pointing out that disgust is a distinguishing feature of man from other animals, therefore, the prohibition of suicide is a sign of man's dominance over other animals. This is more reminiscent of not canonical Christianity, but the old heresy of human worship, forbidden in the 4th century, in which opponents often accuse Protestant theologians