Moral Consciousness in the Postmodern Era

The article is devoted to the analysis of modern transformations of moral consciousness. It considers the concept of morality within the boundaries of the postmodern era, traces the formation of individual morality and the consumer nature of relations between people. It pays particular attention to the phenomenon of relativism in the morality of a postmodern person. It indicates the importance of the idea of freedom and equality for changing moral consciousness towards relativism, which contributes to the formation of an uncritical attitude of a person to his own self. It studies the influence of the factor of expanding access to information on the transformation of moral consciousness. Also it considers the relationship of postmodern moral consciousness with the phenomenon of “short-term” authority. The article concludes that it is necessary to culturally overcome the moral entropy of postmodernity.