The history of fundamental ideas: Spirituality
https://doi.org/10.21285/2415-8739-2023-1-82-90
Abstract
The aim of this article is to show the problem in understanding spirituality. The semantic connection of such terms as spirit, soul, body and spirituality is shown. The task is to concretize the understanding of the idea of spirituality by identifying the specifics of the main aspects of the consideration of spirituality in religion, science, art and philosophy. Philosophy strives to take the semantic content of all these forms of vision and understanding of spirituality, while maintaining independence. Philosophy is the basis for considering spiritual existence due to the fact that, firstly, it deals only with the ultimate foundations of the forms of various manifestations of spirituality. Secondly, it relates these ultimate foundations to each other, thereby setting the integrity of the worldview. The philosophical approach to the study of the "spirit" was laid down in Antiquity in Plato's theory of ideas. Spirituality, as a result, appears in Plato as a person's desire to 1) rise above the earthly world and 2) join the world of ideas. In both cases, spirituality is connected with consciousness, since in general, the connection of wisdom and spirituality is characteristic of classical culture. Spirituality as the ability to establish a semantic connection of the inner world of a person with the integrity of being presupposes the involvement of rationality. However, the connection between spirituality and rationality is ambiguous, which is manifested by the loss of the influence of spirituality in modern science. As the fundamental basis of the idea of spirituality it is proposed: 1) spirituality is the ability of a person associated with his involvement into the unstable world of nature and the world of his mental activity; 2) spirituality is necessarily connected with the process of human self-identification; 3) spirituality is realized as a process of identification, which is associated with the disclosure of the rational principle of human consciousness; 4) spirituality is an ability not of an impersonal mass, but of a certain person.
About the Author
A. I. Shaforostov
Irkutsk National Research Technical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Alexander I. Shaforostov, PhD, Professor of the Department of History and Philosophy
83, Lermontov St., Irkutsk 664074
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