Moral philosophy and ethics seen through the opposition of the origin and the cause
The article is devoted to the conceptual opposition of the moral philosophy and ethics howA. Guseynov differentiates them, especially to the opposition of the concepts of the origin (ἀρχή) and the cause. Philosophy originated in the man’s longing to conceiving thyself, answering the question of the possibility and the source of an act in the first person. Answering this question, philosophy had to conceive the world in its fullness with the thinker included in it, which determines the philosophical vision as from within and philosophical thinking as in the first name. So the concept of ἀρχή (the origin) appeared through the answer to an ethical question and having moral content. Later Aristotle defined a man as an ἀρχή of the act in its fullness. The concept of the origin breaks free of the the causes-consequences, ends-means logic and becomes fundamental for moral philosophy, marking its opposition to the ethics as cognition of morality from outside, targeted at the causes and justifications and being unable to think of a man as an origin of an act and the world as complete and the only.