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Title of Article

COGNITIVE INTERPRETATION OF ETHICAL CONCEPTS «GOODNESS» AND «EVILNESS» AS BASIC-LEVEL CATEGORIES


Issue
6
Date
2020

Article type
scientific article
UDC
81.119
Pages
135-139
Keywords
 


Authors
Van Tyantszyao
Nizhegorodskiy gosudarstvennyy universitet im. N.I. Lobachevskogo


Abstract
This work provides a lexical-semantic and conceptual-semantic analysis of the ethical concepts «goodness» and «evilness» as basic-level categories. It is shown, the scientific notion «concept» and «category» are the final products of two successive stages of cognition, that is, conceptualization and categorization, the concepts «goodness» and «evilness», acting as prototypes within the framework of the key idea of the Russian language picture of the world ‘nuances of human relations’, possess lexical-semantic and conceptual-semantic features that correspond to all criteria of basic level of categorization. It is concluded, the concepts «goodness» and «evilness», considered both ethical concepts and basic-level categories, are both some kind of objective invariants and subjective moral ideas that have a source of conscience, and key moral guidelines in the «good - bad» value scale.

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