Prokofiev, A. V. Non-Violence Ethics as an Escape from the Moral Risk

Abstract: The article well shows that a traditional claim against non-violence ethics disguising simple helplessness and cowardice is beneath any criticism. However, imperative non-violence can hide a spiritual and psychological pragmatics of another kind – intention of a subject to avoid any risks in the sphere of moral improvement. The author of the article assumes that non-violence ethics is indeed an escape from the moral risk, and this tendency ruins the basic moral about sincere starvation towards the other person’s well-being. This study is based on such concepts as L. N. Tolstoy’s moral doctrine and M. Weber’s phenomenology.

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