Formation and principles of social and philosophical understanding of the category “civic consciousness”

The relevance of the work is due to the need of comprehending the process of formation and content filling of the category of “civic consciousness” in the modern world based on the principles of philosophers’ understanding of the categories “consciousness” and “self-consciousness” in social and humanitarian knowledge. The purpose of the study is to consider certain aspects of civic consciousness not only by revealing its essence, as a modern manifestation of the phenomenon of a person’s awareness of his civic status, but also from the standpoint of the significance of his potential in social and humanitarian knowledge in general. As a methodological basis of the research, we define the humanitarian problematization of the material under study, which provides a philosophical formulation of the research problem, which, in combination with the dialectical method, allows us to carry out a comprehensive analysis of the category of “civic consciousness”. Consideration of the category indicated by us allows us to determine how, through the development of social consciousness, there is an understanding of the events and phenomena occurring in society, as well as the establishment of a person’s place in social and political life and, as a result, self-determination and self-consciousness of a person in society. The plurality of approaches to the study of the formation of civic consciousness allows us to conclude that there is a high need to consider this issue in all historical periods. Based on the formed ideas about self-awareness, we have established the following models of self-awareness of a person and a citizen: “world – man”, “world – man – transformation”, “world 1 – man – transformation – world 2”, “world 1 – man – transformation – world 2 – number – person”. Thus, civic consciousness in the structure of power relations is the subject’s consciousness of his skills and abilities, along with an awareness of the actions performed by the subject in order to be involved in the processes established by the power structures.