Idea of Social Hierarchy in the Russian Religious Philosophy

Abstract

In article the main cultural universaliya forming vision of society in domestic cultural tradition are defined. Is shown that the central place among them belongs to the category “hierarchy” which value is connected not only with application of system approach to society research, but also with its valuable and semantic nature, through correlation with which, the person implanted in the corresponding cultural tradition, realizes and realizes itself in public life. The special emphasis is placed on the idea put forward by the Russian thinkers according to which spiritual value of hierarchy reveals at the beginning of service, understood not as the service assuming blind and not reflective performance of some function, and as activity, on the one hand, taking all completeness of the personality, and with another, acting as a condition of her development. It is noted that the principle of hierarchy is cornerstone of the relation peculiar to the Russian cultural tradition to a subject of human rights according to which human rights are subordinated to its duties. In article it is specified that the philosophy of service developed by the Russian thinkers, resists to the philosophy of interest defining the majority of the directions to modern social thought, dominating in modern social thought.