Moral choice and philosophy of doubt in L. M. Lopatin

The article discusses the role of doubt in the moral choice of a person, revealed in the writings of L.M. Lopatin Russian thinker, representative of philosophical personalism, professor at Moscow University. For a reasonable start of a conversation about the relationship between moral choice and doubt in Lopatin’s philosophy, a triad of interconnected author’s concepts is analyzed mechanical and creative causality, philosophical doubt and moral freedom. As a generalization, a symbolic “path” of Lopatin’s ethical reasoning was identified and carried out: moral choice doubt a sense of responsibility good will. It is concluded that in Lopatin’s reasoning, the choice is made, as a rule, in a contradictory situation, when an independent person seeks to make his own decision. Unlike the postulates of Kant’s philosophy of duty, Lopatin’s moral choice is subjective and can resonate in a diametrically opposite register: consciousness unconsciousness, good evil, common sense sensual desire; benefit benefit, etc. The moment of choice is always associated with doubt, manifested in the trinity of forms emotional, semantic and volitional. Doubt gives rise to a tense sense of responsibility for the expressed thought or action and promotes creative activity guided by good will.