Resource Of Russian Religious And Philosophical Tradition In Constructive Relationship With West

Abstract

In our work we want to show that spiritual grounds for constructive answers to the challenges of our time have matured for centuries in the depths of the Russian religious and philosophical tradition. Spiritual practice of Hesychast monks formed a special view on the relationship of man with God and with people around. The essence of these relations is dynamic and largely depends on the moral state of those who enter into them. Such attitudes are rooted in the mentality of Russian people and reflected in the national philosophical thought. It was in Russian philosophy that for the first time there was an awareness that the problem of the formation of the general is a problem not so much theoretical and methodological as practical, existential, ontological. Modern social philosophy proceeds from the premise that the general can not be prescribed initially, it appears in the interaction itself and in its study, being the result of the interaction of different systems that do not remove their differences, but fixes the form they generated. Thus, the comprehension of our religious and philosophical tradition can become very fruitful both in philosophical and methodological terms, thereby contributing to going beyond the current consideration of the question of the relationship between Russia and the West.