The Correlation of the Concept of «Traditional Spiritual and Moral Values» and the Foundations of the Constitutional System of the Russian Federation as a Semantic Issue of Russian Statehood for Public Discourse

Abstract

The paper presents the author’s viewpoint and assessment of existing attempts in public discourse to reflect on the current situation of society and the state through the choice of an ideological paradigm, interpretations of the relationship between the concept of «traditional spiritual and moral values» and the foundations of the constitutional system of the Russian Federation. The author presents semantic, substantive meaning of this question and a scientifically based answer thereto, including for the discipline «Fundamentals of Russian statehood» that was introduced into the universities curricula. It is concluded that «traditional spiritual and moral values» is essentially a framework. Not being a rigid, once and for all established construct, it experiences a modification of its content, expression, semantic accents as society develops and strives for a meaningful basis, which is the universal, supra-constitutional values of human society, which have found consolidation in the foundations of the constitutional system of the Russian Federation. Therefore, at the present stage there are no grounds for contrasting these categories. The author substantiates the viewpoint according to which it is logical to correlate the concepts under consideration based on the idea of constitutional patriotism. Awareness of the potential of the idea of constitutional patriotism as a civic value, its social and personal internalization and transfer to the category of an integral component of the identity of a citizen of the Russian Federation is named as the desired result of social development.