VALUES AND SEMANTIC DOMINANTS OF POLITICAL MORALITY OF RUSSIAN YOUTH: A POLITICAL AND A PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
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https://doi.org/10.17072/2218-1067-2023-2-60-70Keywords:
political morality; youth; concept; lexico-semantic field; value; subject; egocentrismAbstract
The study focuses on the lexico-semantic aspect of the political morality of modern Russian youth and is based on a set of methodological principles of political psychology and moral philosophy. The concepts presented in the article demonstrate that young people in Russia are forming a new political morality in terms of its semantic focuses. Based on traditional and new concepts with both immanent and introduced moral content, the political consciousness of Russian youth develops new ethical criteria for evaluating politics. These criteria are formulated as moral postulates of "give both to others and to oneself" with respect to politicians, and "I get everything and share with no one" with respect to oneself. The psychological significance of the criteria for the overall system of moral norms of youth is the elimination of a number of ethical constraints and the strengthening of egocentric, hedonistic and pragmatic attitudes in the minds of young people at the expense of subjective moral action. The analysis of the concepts revealed that the political morality of young Russians is characterized by an eclectic mix of content and meaning, fragmentation, cognitive simplicity, and emotional intensity, all of which limit its identification and motivational potential.References
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