Academic CentreETHICS AS ACOUSTIC ART OF LIFE: AUGUSTS MILTS
Velga Vēvere
On May 28, 2018, a conference / commemorative event dedicated to the 90th anniversary of Augusts Milts (1928–2008) “About Life, Ethics and Oral History” took place at the University of Latvia. This article is based on a report presented at that conference. Two thematic fields are outlined- time and autobiographical motifs – attitudes to one’s own life and texts, as well as manifestations of ethics as art of life. The focus points of the article are A. Milts’s roles as an ethics professor and an author of literary philosophical essays and paradoxes. Most of A. Milts’s texts on ethical issues have a strong pedagogical intent – lectures, textbooks, didactic essays that serve as a reference for ethics (including professional ethics) teachers in schools and universities today. Still, it seems that the most important legacy that we have inherited from him is practicing responsibility in one’s own life – ecological, economic, social, and human.