Supramoralism: Semantic Relief of Common Cause and Synthetic Principles of Russian Cosmism

The article is devoted to the historical and analytical consideration of supramoralism as a key concept and terminological definition of the project of world regulation proposed by N.F. Fedorov (1829–1903). It is noted that the concept of “supramoralism” is polysemantic, it has multiple meaningful dimensions. Structurally, the supramoralistic project is a logical network of ethical and philosophical antinomies of present being revealing global-civilizational threats and risks of the current existence and reflecting the state of actual historical singularity. The term “supramoralism” can be accepted as the most verified and precise semantic generalization of the key concepts of Fedorov’s ethical and philosophical system. The author of the article claims that, according to Fedorov, this terminological definition was supposed to facilitate the introduction of the conceptual apparatus of the doctrine of Common cause into the ideological horizon of scientific and philosophical thought under the most precise and, at the same time, theoretically strict name, adapted to the scientific apparatus. Scientifically “legalizing” supramoralism, Fedorov studied the history of the emergence of supramoralism as a worldview and as a practical transformation of the world. The active tone of supramoralism is expressed in the management of natural processes in their various types and forms of manifestation. The project of holistic ontological transformation includes not only the physical material of the Universe, but also a metaphysically determined reality. Based on this, supramoralism can be defined as a universal deontological project that permeates all layers and levels of world being. © 2025, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.