The textbook analyzes the status of modern ethics of responsibility, its liberation from metaphysical layers. From these positions the place of ethics of responsibility in the system of modern philosophical and special scientific knowledge is consistently considered. It is interpreted as the pinnacle of the development of axiological Sciences. Meets the requirements of the Federal state educational standards of higher education of the last generation. For students enrolled in an enlarged group of training areas 47.03.00 "Philosophy, ethics and religious studies". It is of interest to students of other areas of training, graduate students, philosophers, scientists, a wide range of readers and all those who are interested in the latest achievements of modern science, including philosophy.