ONTOLOGICAL ASPECT OF ACTUALIZATION OF THE CONCEPT OF PEOPLE

The concept of the people requires rehabilitation and actualization. It is impossible to ignore it, since the people are the ones who create, shape the world around them, i.e., act as a subject. The character of the entire life of the people is determined by the dominant type of person. By identifying and describing the dominant type of person, Plato reveals the correspondingly dominant behavioral model and way of thinking in society, which are not static. The people's man represents a microcosm, absorbing all the fundamental qualities of his people. He is classless and can belong to any social strata. He is not determined by education, income, or such demographic concepts. The people's man perceives the fullness of the people's existence and rejects the very question of the meaninglessness of life. The people's man is the antithesis of the superman. For the people's man, there is life before and after his personal earthly existence. He does not perceive his own death as the end of the universe. The people's man should be classified as a historical man. The existence of a people, its self-realization in the most diverse spheres of life (economy, state building, political participation, art, self-government, religious self-organization) is possible as a result of the sum of an infinite mass of human wills. The people's individual, along with this understanding, fully understands the extent of their own responsibility. Through their activities based on responsibility, the people's individual eliminates their own alienation and attains immortality within the life of their people. First, a person must encounter themselves. This encounter presupposes the immediacy of communication, expressed in living speech, in living collaboration. A people that retains the ability to speak retains its vitality. For the national consciousness, articulation, not rationalization, is essential.