On the Question of Social and Philosophical Foundations of Spiritual Reformating Society and Individuals

Abstract

The relevance of this study lies in the fact that at the present time, a time of large-scale changes occurring both in the space of scientific knowledge and in geopolitical space, there is a formation of a new picture of the world, a new ontology, on the one hand, and the actualization of problems of all types identity (from national-state to the level of the individual, personality, human identity, ultimately), on the other hand. The authors believe that these two processes are interconnected through new approaches to understanding spirituality, based on a new understanding of the principle of integrity, universal connections. Since the basis of all types of crises, according to the authors, as well as many researchers, is a spiritual crisis, the spiritual reformatting of society is the main goal of building promising models of the future. According to the authors, the “starting point” in the spiritual modernization of society should be, first of all, the personality as a spiritual-physical integrity, realizing itself, asserting itself through the phenomenon of intersubjectivity in the space of culture. The purpose and novelty of this study is that such a philosophical explication of the concept of “personality” as a starting point for the spiritual transformation of society should not be carried out on the basis of postmodern individualistic liberalism in a counterbalance to the new emerging ontology with its new approach to the phenomenon of spirituality as a practical necessity, based on a new understanding of the principle of integrity, the meaning of universal connections and the common origin of the object and the surrounding world.