Axiological foundations of the person’s spiritual culture formation

Natalia S. Chernyakova, Dr. Sc. (Philosophy), Department of Ethnocultural Studies, Institute of the Peoples of the North, Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University, St. Petersburg, e-mail: Cherns2011@yandex.ru

The article is devoted to the study of axiological foundations of the person’s spiritual culture formation. The opposition to the traditional for Western sociology and postmodern ideology identification of values with any phenomena having significance to humans makes the analysis of the fundamentals of axiology as a theory of values necessary and relevant. The article reveals the essence of values, their role as a sense-making element of culture, and substantiates the irreducibility of values to material and spiritual goods that satisfy a variety of human needs, but are not able to make human life meaningful. Axiological knowledge becomes the basis for the formation of the spiritual culture of an educated person, since it allows him/her to judge independently what distinguishes a person as a subject of socio-cultural activity from a representative of the animal world and to be the creator of the value resource of his/her own life. The understanding that values are not ‘everything that matters’, but only what gives human existence a socio-cultural meaning and determines the ultimate goals of culture directly affects the development of the meaning space of a person’s culture, the level of awareness of goal-setting and the validity of choosing certain forms of value embodiment.

Keywords: subject of socio-cultural activity, spiritual culture, axiology, values, value orientations, education

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