DIFFERENTIATION AND COMBINATION OF GENERATIONS IN A CHANGING WORLD

Аннотация

The paper studies the problems of methodology and theory of intergeneration attitudes. As the initial methodological basis of this problem Platon's idea about the patrimonial person is designated as well as the views of Russian philosophers about Patrimonial integrity as the linker between the person and the society. The philosophers M. Heidegger’s and E. Husserl’s idea of intersubjective experience which is treated as the attitude between old and new generations, between the adult and the child or as generative attitude is analyzed. In a changing environment, society demands to be seen as a historical process based on the concepts of rebuilding and changing social relationships, continuity and disunity, traditionalism and innovation. In this sense, generation serves as a historical instrument for measuring the scale and direction of long-term, time-varying social change. “The successive emergence of new 'biological beings' inevitably leads to some loss of the accumulated cultural wealth; but, on the other hand, makes a "new selection" of what has been achieved only when it is necessary. This encourages us to reevaluate what we have accumulated, and teaches us to forget what is no longer needed, and to strive for what we failed to achieve. The “step” of a generation helps to determine the balance between the past state of society and its movement into the future.