Abstract.
The stability and definiteness of one’s identity in the “liquid modernity” cannot be fully achieved by appealing exclusively to one or another form of social community and requires searching for deeper, anthropological foundations. Such anthropological foundations imply the correlation of a person with nature and, as a consequence, a certain understanding of it. Nature is not defined primarily as an external object for the human user, but acts as a unity, into which the man is organically included, or is sanctified and sacralized as part of the cosmos, or even viewed together with the man as a projection of a transcendent metaphysical order. The article deals with various approaches to understanding and cognition of nature, proposed by representatives of conservative thought in continental Europe in the XX – early XXI centuries. The article examines the question of the relationship between ecological practice and the anthropological foundations of the human worldview, the traditional conservative vision of the human order as organic, the historical role of the Christian attitude to nature from the point of view of conservative thinkers, and, finally, Spengler’s understanding of the connection between Western nature study and the «Faustian» European soul. The theoretical basis of this study is the works by O. Spengler, E. Jünger, M. Eliade, A. Mohler, C. Schmitt, H. Freyer, A. de Benoist, G. K. Kaltenbrunner, A. M. Rutkevich, S. V. Artamoshin and others. The study is based on the principles of discourse analysis, comparative, socio-philosophical, philosophical-historical and historical-philosophical methodology.
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