Hermeneutics and Deontology or about Smysl, The Conversation of N.N. Shulgin and L.T. Ryskeldiyeva

Abstract

In a conversation hermeneutic deontology is discussed as a result of the synthe­sis of the concepts of Sense and Duty. The current situation in the philosophical culture is shows us an undeniable crisis, urgent search for the ways to transfer knowledge, the necessity to respond to technological and information challenges. The question raised about the nature and goals of philosophical activity, about the topology and discursive role of metaphysics, about the relationship between philosophy and creativity. The main points of posing the fundamental for Moder­nity problem of Cogito are from Descartes – Kant – Husserl to the re-actualiza­tion of the transcendental approach to consciousness nowadays. The participants of the conversation talk about possible ways to safely use of “smart machines” that successfully imitate intellectual activity and note that the activity of the Cogito can also be the opposite of comprehension as appropriation, so to speak, making Data mine. The anti-reductionist features of the Russian word “Smysl” (Sense) are noted, which allow us to see Wholeness as the source of all mean­ings, which cannot be included in Data. Such Smysl holds philosophical dis­course together, has a textual expression and deontological status, which can only be guaranteed by the efforts of the participants of the Socratic dialogue. It is noted that Russian philosophy represented by V.S. Solovyev begins not with Cogito, but with Smysl, and this beginning allows this philosophy to be a “moral project”.