Символика числа в традиционном мировосприятии монгольских этносов: философский аспект

Abstract

The philosophical aspect of the spiritual culture of the Mongolian ethnic groups is of undoubted interest for modern Russian science. Features of the cultural genesis of the Mongolian-speaking ethnic groups of Russia (Buryats and Kalmyks) have common historical and cultural foundations with the Mongolian world. These fea­tures make it possible to consider the Mongolian ethnos as a certain spiritual and cultural integrity. In this article, the authors continue to develop previously ob­tained results from the position of philosophy and semiotics of culture. The origi­nal philosophical, conceptual and methodological formulation of the problem is based on Hegel’s teaching about the symbol, about the symbolic form, which in his interpretation is characteristic of the culture and art of the East. The work reveals the role of the number symbolism in the spiritual and cultural life of the Mongols, considers its characteristic features based on the analysis of the numbers 1, 2, 5, 8, 9, 13, 25, 37, 49, 60, 61, 73, 81, occupying an important place in the ethno-cultural world of the Mongols, the invariable and enduring value-conceptual nature of the number symbolism is shown. The identification of the traditional features of the Mongolian worldview of numerical symbolism is carried out from the posi­tion of the philosophy of the ethnos. The philosophy of ethnos is considered as a relatively new approach in the space of philosophy, focused on the inclusion of non-Western ethnic worldviews in the general outline of philosophical prob­lems. The joint work of Russian and Mongolian specialists in this field of research has made it possible to obtain new results for the philosophy of the ethnos, the phi­losophy and semiotics of culture, and in general for philosophical science.