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Are spiritual values sustainable?

Spiritual values are attitudes and behavioral norms, standards and moral prohibitions, ideals and assessments, social standards and concepts of good and evil, justice and injustice, beautiful and ugly, proper and unacceptable. Objective values (material goods, natural resources) act as objects of satisfaction of people's needs, and spiritual values are an independent sphere that even shapes the attitude of society to objects and things. Unlike, for example, a natural resource such as water consumed by a person, brotherhood or solidarity causes people who share these principles to act in a certain way. We can say that the sphere of the ideal acts as a behavioral motivation for human actions.

The question arises: how independent and unshakable are spiritual values? On the one hand, religions claim that they are given to us "from above" - in the form of commandments and, therefore, eternal and unchanging. Just at a certain stage, the "Hour of Mercy" struck when humanity was given these eternal tablets (or humanity just "matured" to the point that they were accepted). Other voices stand for the fact that spiritual norms develop together with society. For example, in the era of "troglodyte morality" it was not considered shameful to kill the weak, to take away its women and cattle, and now it is classified as murder, rape and robbery. In the days of Ancient Greece to own slaves was not considered shameful, now it is a crime.

Relativists reinforce their arguments by the fact that even now, along with the universal, the spiritual values of social strata and individuals co-exist. And, unfortunately, some individuals have the same "troglodyte morality". Our moral norms are codified in the changing laws of states (remember, at least, that the death penalty was used everywhere before, and now the list of countries where the death penalty is the death penalty is steadily declining). Our conception of the world is modified by the change of scientific paradigms. The sense of beauty is imposed on us by aesthetic education - there are people who think that the most primitive kitsch is beautiful.

All this is so: the notion of justice, good, due and the notion of beauty changed. Therefore, we say that there were spiritual values of the culture of primitive society, the ancient world, the Middle Ages and the New Time. But is not there a substitution of terms? Do we accept the manifestation and embodiment of ideas and ideals in the behavior of these values themselves? For example, we take the sphere fairly - unjustly, lawfully - criminal. Going on a campaign against another tribe, primitive warriors frankly believed that they acted correctly and rightly: after all, they acted as a war against "strangers", and did not repel their "own" offense. Feudal conquered the lands of the rival "by right of conquest" and was confident that he did not upset an iota against the law.

Consequently, it can be concluded that justice as such has always caused satisfaction in people, and trampling on justice has created feelings of resentment, anger, the desire to restore this justice . Aesthetic spiritual values developed from rock carvings to modern postmodernism, but people's attraction to beauty was always. As well as disgust for the ugly. Creativity as a process brought and brings torments and joy as a primitive artist, and modern. The process of knowing something new, pushing the horizons of our ideas about the world, has always been inherent in man. Therefore, the search for truth also stands in the line of universal spiritual values. And, finally, the sacral realm. Who at all times was considered a saint, led by the Spirit, a priest, a wise man, a soothsayer? The one who not only theoretically shares spiritual values, but also lives according to them - according to the commandments, according to the law, in justice and truth.

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