Аннотация: The author discusses the already familiar but disturbing gap: too often values remain the topic of conversation, without becoming the basis of an action. To bridge this gap, it is necessary to remember — following Bakhtin — that an act is not just an action, but an "event of being", complicity, overcoming one's own egoism and inertia. Value is the dominant factor here, which pulls a person out of the quagmire of everyday life. A key role in the implementation of values is assigned to social rituals (school lines, "Lightning"), collective forms of creativity (choral and family singing, dance), enlightenment as a unity of education and upbringing (in contrast to "education"). It is noted that values are experienced not one at a time, but in a kind of ensembles. The author introduces the concept of "inertia of values" as a positive force that allows a person to resist external pressure. Military experts with pre-revolutionary training, Soviet engineers who worked in the 90s for an idea after a night job in a taxi, St. Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky), who operated on wounded soldiers and promised to return to exile after the war - all these are examples where the value is stronger than circumstances and persecution. In contrast to the Western "new normality," which legitimizes pathology, it is necessary to raise the bar for the norm as an ideal, rather than a statistical average. The author calls the choir a key instrument of education — not only musical, but also philosophical (according to Bakhtin: "the choir sings with me"), a form of shared experience where a person does not dissolve, but finds himself in a responsible act. The state is as valuable as it protects decent values. The text is a philosophical reflection on the mechanisms of rooting values in the individual and society, addressed to educators, social architects and anyone who thinks about bridging the gap between word and deed.
Ключевые слова: поступок, ценность, имплементация/укоренение ценностей, норма, ответственность, хор, бытовое исповедничество, инерция ценностей, просвещение, переживание ценности.
Keywords: deed, value, implementation/rooting of values, norm, responsibility, choir, everyday confession, inertia of values, enlightenment, experience of value.
Value and deed
During several seminars of the Philosophical Club devoted to values, much attention was paid to how the values discussed can be rooted (“implemented”), what can be done to make these values the basis for actions, and not just a topic for conversation?
First of all, we must remember that “deed” is not just a word in everyday language. In Russian philosophy, this is a concept. M.M. Bakhtin has a work “Towards the Philosophy of Action”, written in 1919. Bakhtin is a philosopher who has a worldwide influence. He is by no means only a student of Western, Neo-Kantian, or any other tradition. He is a man who significantly influenced the world humanitarian thought of the twentieth century.
Bakhtin defines an act as an “event of being”, as something that is done in a person’s complicity in this being. We are, as it were, “eventful” — we do not stand up to existence and do not act in opposition or in spite of it. There is such a term as “voprekism”, which is often used in our political thought. Let’s recall at least the phrase “Did we win because of Stalin or despite Stalin?” That is, it is not in spite of being, but in being, but from my active life position. I perceive existence not only as a habitat, everyday life, but also as a field that I have to cross, and not just cross, but plow and harvest (there is a proverb “to pass through life is not to cross the field”).Man performs an actively transformative role in relation to this being. The classics of our activity approach (K. H. Momjian) said that philosophy can be descriptive, describe reality, or it can be valuable, that is, to develop those values that allow a person to actively relate to being.
