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2117U008199, Article
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Стаття, Рецензовано
Title
From xenophobia to filoxenia: metamorphoses of the alien in biblical ethics (AI translated)
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Будько М. (M. Budko)
Budko M. (M. Budko)
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01-01-2017
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Національний університет "Острозька академія" МОН України
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https://eprints.oa.edu.ua/id/eprint/6093/
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Видавництво Національного університету «Острозька академія»
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У статті розглянуто відображену в Біблії еволюцію морального мислення щодо Чужого як шлях від агресивної ксенофобії й зумовленого нею насильства до повної асиміляції Чужого шляхом «освоєння» й «присвоєння» його на підставі спільності віри. Першим кроком на шляху подолання ворожнечі у старозавітній етиці виявилася гостинність – втілення ідеї філоксенії як
духовної властивості людини, покладеної в основу морального ставлення до Чужинця-гостя.
(Developments in culture (and immediately after it in culture-related sciences and in philosophy) have recently
occurred so that the issue of the Alien has increasingly been examined actually as the Alien absence, as its objective transforming into «something quite infrequent and exceptional for social life» (I. Pakholova); it has been doubted «the importance in principle of the category of the Alien» to describe the contemporary world (R.Stichweh), the category of the Alien even has been shown certain «workedness of something significant in our thought» (V. Malakhov)... Life has shifted accents dramatically, having cruelly demonstrated a painfully poisoning «sting of the Alien», in all completeness of cruelty, irreconcilability, and inhumanity – having demonstrated it not somewhere at abstract distant spots where «alien» cultures collide, but in own culture, in («own»!) immediate environment, in the depths of the Self.
The actualization of the Alien correlates with those culture conditions, when the cosmos of human existence is ruined, traditional moral codes are dilapidated, and simultaneously it is resulted in actualizing the need for integrating and consolidating the unity of human communities, therefore, the need for referring to those spiritual doctrines, which gather the experience of human coexistence harmonization accumulated by generations. One of such vivifying sources of humaneness is biblical ethics – a key to creating new, urgent to periods of change mental and ethical guidelines and attitudes.
New opportunities for comprehending the spiritual content of the phenomenon of the Alien are being emerged in connection with actualized studies in the field of postsecular philosophy, which embodies «not an automatic restoration of rule of religion, but the restoration of its civil role» (J.-P. Villem), and the problematique of dialogue communication as «an indisputable core for crystallizing «postsecular» philosophizing (V. Malakhov). Just these very fundamentals we used for our ethic-spiritual rethinking of the phenomenon of «the Alien» and answers to its challenges in biblical ethics.)
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2026-05-01