PHENOMENA OF MORAL CHOICE AND RESPONSIBILITY IN ZOROASTRIANISM
The article examines the conceptions on moral choice and responsibility of a human being in the doctrine of Zoroastrianism. It vested a human with personal responsibility for the choice between good and evil in the universe: as the ontological confirmation of the status of one of the two primordial gods; by following or opposing socio-economic norms; with the coherent worldview as readiness to follow his/her moral choice throughout life. At the same time the responsibility of an individual is not discovered through experience, but is prescribed from outside by the religious and philosophical doctrine.