Civilizational guidelines of the Constitution of Russia (reflections on the monograph “The humanitarian potential of the Constitution of the Russian Federation”)

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The authors analyze the humanitarian potential of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the inclusion of spiritual and moral values among the constitutional ones. The position of the authors in assessing the value orientations of the Constitution of Russia through the prism of the priority of the spiritual over the material is supported. Many advantages of the work are noted, including the metaphorical thesis that, within the framework of deconstructing the cultural code of Russia for the Russian people, the idea of the constitution is historically removed from the Platonic (philosophical) meaning and approaches the meaning of God’s providence. The proposal for a “soft” transformation in Russian legislation of a legal provision including tolerance into a provision on religious tolerance is critically evaluated. The thesis is argued that behind the call for religious tolerance lies the moral neutrality of public power, which has already destroyed Western civilization, and overcoming which is the primary task of Russian constitutionalism. It is proved that the reviewed monograph is a successful presentation of a coherent system of civilizational foundations of Russia – constitutionally fixed traditional Russian spiritual and moral values, a conceptual presentation of value orientations for the further development of the Russian state.

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Sergey N. Baburin

Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Dostoevsky Omsk State University; Donetsky State University; Witte Moscow University

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Doctor of Law, Professor, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Honorary Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic, Foreign Member of the Academy of Sciences of Abkhazia, Chief Researcher, Scientific Director of the Center for Integration and Civilizational Studies

Russian Federation, 10 Znamenka str., 119019 Moscow; 55-A Mira Ave., 644077 Omsk; 24 Universitetskaya str., 283001 DPR, Donetsk; 12, bld. 1, 2nd Kozhukhovsky proezd, 115432 Moscow

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