New Challenges of Socio-Humanitarian Sciences: Causes, Ways to Overcome them and their Place in the National Policy System

Abstract

The context of demographic, economic, political, and socio-cultural instability, escalation of cross-religious and military conflicts, as well as environmental changes, all of which have taken place in recent decades, adds to the problem of spiritual development of a person. It is also seriously aggravated by rapid scientific and individual development. Socio-humanitarian sciences have not provided explainations as to the root causes of these evolutionary deviations. Therefore, the problem in question might be studied in the framework of the theory of the stages of spiritual development of a person, and on a greater scale – through the prism of the conflict of the impersonal and personal dimensions of social life. In the course of the study, we perceive the conceptual field of socio-humanitarian sciences as a holistic structure that relies on the metaphysical theory of personality. The proposed constructive combination of socio-humanitarian sciences with the understanding of the human nature made it possible to formulate a single conceptual field. The authors believe that the causes of the philosophy and social sciences crisis partially stem from the underestimation of the spiritual hierarchy principle and the social equality concept absolutization, and that affected the understanding of the human essence. The proposed metaphysical approach singles out stages of a personal spiritual development. The study proves that the main cause of the global crises is the domination of the "average" person both in society and in the system of humanitarian sciences: philosophy, history, sociology, political science, and law. The notion of an “average parson” introduced in philosophy and the socio-humanitarian sciences comes hand in hand with certain cognitive-destructive processes. Given research defines a conceptually developed objective of teaching socio-humanitarian sciences, as well as providing students with knowledge on the metaphysical theory of personality. Teaching socio-humanitarian disciplines is considered as a way to fully comprehend the Ukrainian idea as well as to contribute to the national values formation. Therefore, in the framework of the presented idea, it is irrefutable that socio-humanitarian sciences are the fundamental and ideological basis of national security.