The article substantiates the presence of the universal content of morality, clarifies the concept of “universal” in the ethical context. An analysis is given of some modern approaches to the problem of the universal in the theory of morality; those achievements of ethical thought that have not received a sufficiently wide distribution in Russian philosophy are updated. The objective nature of moral norms is substantiated, clear criteria for morally positive and morally negative behavior are proposed in the light of un-derstanding the universal content of morality. The practical and theoretical significance of the concept of ethical universalism proposed by the authors, which makes it possible to build strategies for moral education, as well as to carry out ethical examination of socially significant transformations of various levels in politics, economics, and culture, is noted.
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Erofeeva K.L., Zelentsova M.G. Ethical universalism in the philosophy of morality: dynamics of the generally-human, Ivanovo State University Bulletin, Series: Humanities, 2023, iss. 2, pp. 163—173.