EURASIANISM AS A FORM OF BEING OF CULTURE

Abstract

Theoretical developments are brought together to highlight the special Eurasian type of worldview underlying the formation of the Eurasian civilizational identity. Data of history, ethnography, and philosophical works are referred to for revealing the key features of the Eurasian culture as a whole: religion, patriotism; refusal from self-sufficient accumulation; collectivism; combination of settledness with nomadism; love of the motherland as a factor of personal formation. Generalization and comparative methods were applied to analyze the theoretical and historical (applied) scientific studies in the field of domestic and foreign philosophy of culture, history and pedagogy that have been published since the beginning of the twentieth century. The carried out analysis allows stating that the major milestones of the Eurasian cultural space are now as before the orientation to high spiritual values (religion, patriotism, moral ideals), craving for the brotherhood of nations, and the idea of spiritual and government hierarchy. The list also includes collectivism, the Nonpossessors Movement, intend to go back on grasping for material wealth; continental thinking, combining settled and wandering ways of life; "borderline" patriotism, when the love for motherland and the readiness to defend it become the principles of education and personality development. These factors indicate that the sociocultural Eurasian space has been (and is still) transforming into a single polyethnic and multicultural unity for many centauries. The the boundaries between the anthropological types are unclear, while the beliefs and customs of near-by regions are similar. Thus, Eurasia entertains oneself as a unified whole with the benefit of no significant natural boundaries and mental contradictions between the regions.