24.01.2025, Aleksandrovskoye.
The idea of nations and nation-states was closely connected with the ideas of humanism, political scientist, philosopher, leader of the Essence of Time movement Sergey Kurginyan said on December 27 on the Conversation with a Sage program on the Zvezda radio channel.
The program discussed the collapse of the project “Humanism” in the 21st century, which will lead either to the emergence of a new megaproject, which will show humanity a new path of development. Or, if this does not happen, the world will slip into a global dictatorship, the contours of which are already visible. Kurginyan explained that the religious society of the premodern era, which considered Man to be the crown of God’s creation, created in the image and likeness of God, was replaced by the modern society, which was also based on humanism. It was only the postmodern that gave up human development.
“The project was called Modern era or Modernity, they started building it already politically and, having gained full power, somewhere in the 19th century, and before that it was still under development for two centuries,” he explained, adding that the project was relevant in the period of transition from feudal-peasant society to industrial society.
“The nation in one form or another was one of the main components. The basis of the structure of such society is not empires, but nation-states,” the philosopher said. “A nation is a subject that carries out modernization,” the analyst explained and noted that nations “unite on the basis of culture, language, territory and some reverence for the sacred stones of their history.”
According to Kurginyan, the nation is the one that develops the project. Within it, there are more conservative forces, which rely more on tradition, and more progressive forces. However, within the Modernity project, there is a consensus between them, which is that tradition and progress are united in that humanity must develop on the basis of scientific and technological progress, a reasonable structure of society, with a unified system of law.
As a result, society should move towards a bright future, where all nations would unite in the UN, a unified world would emerge, which would follow the path of progress. At the same time, the key place in the project was occupied by the term “humanism,” Kurginyan emphasized.
“No ethos, no division into, let’s say, justice, law, ethics, aesthetics, gnoseology, no reasoning about how progress and tradition are balanced, no reasonable grounds for the existence of human communities called nations – none of this is worth a damn without a basic notion of humanism. Axiomatic, seemingly irreplaceable,” Sergey Kurginyan emphasized.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
