About ethnic features of Russian thinking

This article discusses a specifically Russian type of thinking with its specific ethnic Russian type of rationality; the purpose of the article is to detect their characteristic features. It is revealed, that Russian thinking is not reduced to performing banal logical operations at the level of rational activity of “common sense”; it is indicated that it is characterized by a slight neglect of rationality, pragmatism, “common sense”, it contains some super-rational elements, that can not reduced to either rational or cognitive in general, and are the basis of such phenomena as, for example, “breadth of the Russian soul” - signs that are nonspecific for carriers of Western rationality; this reveals the existence of the Russian type of rationality, which cannot be reduced to either Western or Eastern typesof rationality. Thus, the purpose of this article - to discuss the irreducibility of the fundamental specifics of Russian thinking - first of all, value - to the Eastern and Western specifics of thinking - is achieved through consideration of these value attitudes, and above all, to the installation of refusal to reduce rational activity to rational, - Russian people “Thinks with the heart”, and not with reason, and, thus, the Russian cultural space forms a special type of rationality, moreover, it is not hybrid in the “ West - East ” coordinates, which is not a kind of an interest in the attitudes of Western and Eastern types of rationality, but representing a certain independent, immanent, autonomous, original, type of rationality that passed through a thousand years of its historical crystallization, from ancient pagan cults to its modern - post-Soviet state.

culture, values, Russian thinking, Russian ethnos, types of rationality