SOME METHODOLOGICAL QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE INTERPRETATION OF INTERPRETATIONS

The paper, based on the study "20th Century Moral Philosophy: a Conversation with Kant" by Jūratė Baranova, deals with methodological problems of "conversation with Kant" or of the interpretation of interpretations. The main reason why scientific philosophical research was transformed into narrative of conversation or interpretation, was the authors anti-positive posi- tion and conception that philosophy is a conversation of humankind and should not be re- stricted to the intellectual pastime of professional academics. Moral philosophy is not able to suggest the final solution for salvation of humankind. So, the main task of the study was to create a narrative about the discussion between contemporary moral philosophy and Kant. In this case the narrative of interpretation of moral philosophy loses a theoretical abstract style and becomes more fiction. The hermeneutic narrative has its formal signs: common questions, one theme (or a hero), the conflict of interpreters, the competent and active narrator, imaginative style and critical rationalism linked with Kant's philosophy. But the most interesting and im- portant feature of the text of the study about moral philosophy, I should say, is its ambivalence, two opposing simultaneous voices: one rational voice comes from Kant and it tries to construct a clear moral philosophy structure and the other one comes from postmodernist thinking and it tries to show that all answers culminate in the mysterious silence.