Issue #40

Abstract: The article deals with the genealogy of morality, meaningfully related to the vicissitudes of the golden rule. The analysis is based on R.G. Apressyan’s* (* Declared a foreign agent by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation) book “The Moral Changes of Achilles”, in which various characteristics are investigated on the material of Homer’s Iliad “(proto)moral imperativeness” of archaic society in its transitional state, forming a tendency to the formation of such a type of consciousness, which is comprehended in the forms of normalized moral behavior. The author of the article focuses on the fact that in the book the position of the heroes capable of changing the accepted customs of behavior is somewhat modernized, because the heroes were those who fulfilled their Destiny, therefore any change in their attitude to this or that event was determined by it. An attempt is made to show a way of transmitting messages from the primordial knowledge through a kind of theatricalization of an action called the earthly world.