Long Way of Self-Knowledge (On the Issue of the Movement of Thought in History)

Abstract

Wishing to become the master of nature, Man, has not yet become the master of his own passions. Today the world is balancing on the verge of ecological catastrophe and nuclear war of mutual destruction. All of this, and much more, makes the actual task of self-knowledge a very urgent one. Catching up with the self-knowledge, “I” notice that I represent for myself something unreachable, because it contents many various - economic, political, religious and cultural - components. My self-actualization can be blurred by political and ideological conjuncture. Russian national ideology can be understood as the deployment of the well-known formula of Earl Uvarov: “Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Nationality” through the Russian history. Each of the constituents of the formula experienced a strong shock by the time, but it is still actual, though in some modified form. It is known to the European consciousness from Christianity, that the sails of history are blown by the winds of Truth, Justice and Freedom. So it will be in the future, if the main of the Freedoms, the Freedom of creativity, will be guided by responsibility.