CRISIS OF SPIRITUAL VALUES AS A PROBLEM OF PHILOSOPHIC REFLEXION

Abstract

Aim. The article analyzes the problem of the crisis of spiritual values, characterizes the spiritual situation in modern Russia and the world; through the prism of various philosophical approaches, considers the phenomenon of «value» and its specific manifestations - freedom, justice, equality, humanism. Methodology. An experience of historical and philosophical heritage, including I. Kant’s doctrine of moral imperatives and the neo-Kantian conception of the transcendent nature of values, is involved to consider fully and to resolve the problem of the spiritual values crisis. Results. The leading philosophical conceptions related to the studying of values are recognized as universal regulators of the moral image of human and humanity. Their development is a necessary condition for overcoming the crisis of spirituality, bringing up the truly moral goals, values, beliefs in a human. Research implications. lie in an attempt to solve the crisis of spiritual values. To this end, criticism of modern value deviations is being made. The condition for overcoming them is recognized as the adoption of a complex of dialectically interconnected traditional values of culture.