'The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration'
Doi
Abstract
The paper examines the concept of individual and
collective value identities based an emotionalist
understanding of values. The main perspective
it discusses is one where emotions are the most
important practical instruments for the clarification
of individual and collective values. The argument
implies that moral emotions are not irrational, but
have a logic of their own which can reliably pinpoint the persons’ value system; emotions are thus
crucial building blocks of an ethics which is able to
enhance personal and moral identity. This particular ecology of moral emotions is pivotal in crisis
periods, such as the global pandemics, wars or system crashes, either economic, or political, security,
diplomatic or cultural. In the current circumstances,
where the already shaken individual and collective
values throughout the world have been shaken by
the Covid 19 pandemic, understanding identities as
fundamentally couched in moral emotions may be
critical to saving our cultures and our legacies of
social and moral capital