Phenomenology of personality in the age of civilization crises

Abstract

Currently, the world is experiencing a global civilizational crisis, accompanied by a change in the balance of economic forces and political and economic influences of leading societies, as well as a restructuring of the world order and an aggravation of the military-political confrontation between democracy and totalitarianism. In such a situation, the individual is challenged to manage interpersonal, inter-national and inter-regional globalized relations through introducting intensive discourse and the corresponding internal morally oriented work of each individual on himself. In this regard, the problem of the phenomenology of individual values in the era of civilizational transformational crisis becomes relevant. Values as important regulators of human activity are based on the informational laws of self-organization of nature and society and are constituted through multiple adaptive processes of individuals' evaluation of the life situation and development of a general strategy of action. The phenomenology of values is that they are transcendental as such, and the real phenomena are adaptive processes of individuals' evaluation of the environment based on feedback. In other words, above the visible horizon of consciousness we observe the processes of individuals' evaluation of the environment and their conscious correction through feedback of their own activity strategy, while below the horizon the functioning of real natural and social mechanisms of individuals' activity and the formation of an action strategy take place. Artificial intelligence models similar strategies based on empirical synergistic structuring of information signals. What is subjectively perceived by an individual as values, which also act as moral regulators, are informationally structured strategies for the survival and development of a person and society. The basic human values are survival values (life, health, social security), which in a competitive environment cannot be realized without development values (technological competences, freedom, justice, dignity, etc.). The most important absolute value of man and society is the survival of the human population along with its humanitarian achievements. And therefore, it is important that this absolute value becomes the personal value of a critical mass of individuals, sufficient for them to have the opportunity to realize it for the very existence of humanity. Absolute values are expressed for an individual as a rule in the form of moral and social values, which are instrumental in relation to the former. Spiritual values are not something separate from a person's practical life; they contribute to the development of interpersonal and, including, social relations, which contributes to the high-quality resolution of technological, economic, environmental, and military-political issues. In the era of civilizational crises and global military-political confrontations, the level of influence of the value orientation of the personality and his moral responsibility for choosing the vector of his own actions concerning the nature of the course of civilizational transformation is increasing.