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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to examine the extent to which the ethics of social consequences – as developed by Vasil Gluchman – can be considered as a continuation of certain secular tendencies present in Marxist-Leninist ethics and philosophy before 1989. The article focuses on comparing the philosophical and ethical elements of both concepts, particularly in the areas of normative foundations, the social dimension of morality, and approaches to humanism. The ethics of social consequences emerged after 1989 in a secular and postideological space and is characterized by consistent normativity and an emphasis on the social consequences of human action. In this paper, I claim that despite significant differences in aims and ideological grounding, certain thematic and methodological parallels can be identified between these two concepts, revealing structurally comparable features within secular ethical thinking in Slovakia.