VALUES AND VALUE ORIENTATIONS OF THE INDIVIDUAL: WARTIME TRANSFORMATIONS

Abstract

The article analyzes in a broad, general scientific sense the content of the concepts of “values” and “value orientations” as a person’s choice of certain material and spiritual values – objects that determine his purposeful life, the whole way of life. It is emphasized that the category of “value” is interdisciplinary: it is studied in philosophy, sociology, psychology, pedagogy, ethics, aesthetics, and the common problems of the theory of values in the humanities are as follows: definition of the very concept of value; factors and mechanisms of the formation of the system of values of the individual; dialectics of interaction between objective and subjective, conscious and unconscious in the mechanism of value formation; classification of values; hierarchy of values; functions of values in the development of society and the individual today, the category of values itself is one of the central ones in modern humanistic knowledge. The productivity of the direction in the understanding of values – the psychology of self-activity and the subjective formation of the personality as a self-regulated socio-psychological system, in which value orientations are considered as components of the moral consciousness of a person and regulators of his social life, is emphasized. It is concluded that with the beginning of a full-scale war, personal, civil and national closely intersected. Material well-being today can be a resource for helping the army, a means that will make life easier in new conditions and, with constant risk, cannot be compared in its importance with the preservation of one’s own life and the life of one’s family. The main values and value guidelines in the conditions of war are the protection of one’s relatives and friends, one’s territory and, above all, the state as a whole.