PROBLEMS OF WAR AND PEACE FROM THE POSITION OF ORTHODOXY AS A SCIENCE

Abstract

Aim. A presentation of a scientifically based path to achieving eternal peace and a description of the norms of the moral behavior of an Orthodox believer on this path.
Methodology. The adequacy of Orthodoxy in the status of science in a broad sense as an optimal world-view for solving the problems of war and peace is substantiated. An analysis of the Kantian concept of eternal peace is given, its insufficient effectiveness is described due to the lack of a program for self-improvement of a person in the direction of reducing his aggressiveness, the impossibility of implementing this program within the framework of the Kantian pantheistic interpretation of the nature of a person of an atheistic orientation is described, and the possibility of its implementation in Orthodoxy as a science through man’s struggle with the sense of pride. When constituting Orthodoxy as a science in a broad sense, the method of clearly distinguishing the factual basis was applied: the Bible with its books of  the Old and New Testaments and the hypothesis about the tendency for the development of the sense of human pride, leading humanity from the state of peace to the state of war.
Research implications. A complete concept of eternal peace has been created and the norms of the Orthodox believer’s moral behavior in the conditions of insufficient mitigation of the mores of modern mankind are proposed. Some interpretations of God’s plans and intentions are given on the example of the history of Russia in the 20th century.