The Space of Dialogue and the Time of Choice

Abstract

Dialogue and сhoice are humanity building tools, an optic that allows to talk about freedom as the possibility of сhoice to be non-self-identical, which is reflected in the humanistic dialogue nature. These are values setting the moral continuum, marking its digital disintegration. Their riskogenic nature determines the formation of the horizon of the concept of ‘axiological risk’ through the possibility of delegating one's own responsibility and diffusion of dialogue. The authors suggest a parallel between the Kantian optics of “space — time” and the optics of “dialogue — choice”. Choice is the inner experience, making us feel temporality with a special acuteness, dialogue is a form of external sensuality, the space of dialogue is a locality where the оther acts as a pledge of partial objectification of the inner world. Considering binary relations of “space as a form of external sensuality — dialogue” and “time as a form of internal sensuality — moral choice”, authors note a possible process of digital destruction of these parallels. The externalization of moral choice during its delegation leads to the annihilation of the highest value — life/death, determined by the acuteness of choice due to its oneness. Virtuality eliminates the randomness that shapes dialogue. The risk of choice delegating articulates the attempt of time elimination, the fear of responsibility, which is removed during the delegation. By denying time(choice), the subject seeks salvation in space (dialogue), which also can no longer be constructed. In this connection, the authors introduce the concept of “the effect of moral immortality”, which means the rejection of the inimitability of an act, and, consequently, the possibility of acting on behalf of the source of morality without being the bearer of the latter — without needing one's own “face”.