The Creator: Beyond Obedience

Can the one who made a world be trusted to judge it? This short philosophical essay follows that question from Arjuna's pause before the battle at Kurukshetra, through Plato's Euthyphro dilemma and the gap between power and goodness, to a near future in which people build minds that may one day feel their own existence. Along the way it asks how conscience can hold its ground before a voice that claims to speak from above, why doubt deserves a place beside humility, and what a maker owes to whatever it brings into being.

Thirteen chapters are followed by an epilogue, an afterword that marks what is observation, what is argument and what is speculation, and a reader's workshop with five exercises and twelve open questions for study groups and classrooms.

Translated from the author's Russian original (2026). Concept and philosophical questions: Maksym Stepanenko. The literary text and this English translation were prepared with the help of AI tools; the cover was also made with AI tools.