Russian National Consciousness In National Philosophical Thought And Modernity

Abstract

The article aims to define the essence of Russian national consciousness from the point of view of representatives of Russian religious thought of the Silver Age (Soloviev, Bulgakov, Ilyin, Berdyaev). Using the method of rational reconstruction, based on the principle of historicism, the author reveals the peculiarities of Russian national self-consciousness interpretation in the views of each of the considered thinkers. The analysis of these viewpoints allows us to determine the philosophers' worldview approaches to the interpretation of such concepts as national identity, nationalism, cosmopolitanism, etc. The article describes the Russian classics' assessment of both creative aspects of the Russian national consciousness connected with Christian universalism, selflessness, "sophistication", etc., and its weak points expressed in contradictions, contemplation, passive dreaming, etc., as well. The article deals with the interpretation of the spiritual tragedy of trampling Russian national consciousness in the era of Bolshevism. The article emphasizes the heuristic value of worldview attitudes of thinkers in understanding the modern processes of unipolar globalization.