SOCIAL-PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS OF MILITARY TRADITIONS

Abstract

In the article was developed the socio-philosophical analysis of the phenomenon of military traditions, and on this basis, was developed a scientific concept of military traditions as conceptual system that is open to gradual enrichment of the content and terminology of empirical data, introduction of new scientific concepts. It is proved that the most reasonable is the research of the traditions from the position of the social philosophy, at its core it is a phenomenon of social order. It was isolate the fundamental principles of the social-philosophical analysis of military traditions of modern Ukrainian society and its armed forces, namely the principles of the anthropocentrism, phenomenology, historicism, and unity of objective and subjective aspects, the succession. To solve the problems of the research was used the socio-philosophical methods of the cognition. The method of structural-functional analysis was allowed to establish the relationship between levels of the existence of military traditions. With the logical-semantic method was built, so called “pyramid of concepts” of military traditions. The top of the pyramid contains the concept of military traditions, slightly below the national military traditions, the traditions of the armed forces, traditions of military units, and below on the imaginary plane situated the basic concepts and terms that related to military traditions. This pyramid is the most successful for the conceptual development and studying of the concept of “military traditions” because these are always the reproductive system of the symbolic designed and stereotyped knowledge, ideas and practices in their historical modification. It was proposed to share military traditions on the level of an existence of military traditions, national military traditions, traditions of the armed forces, and traditions military units.