The Concept of “Personal Identity” and its Social Implications

Abstract

The article discusses the main approaches to the study of personal identity issues. The authors analyze studiesdevoted to the study of the interrelationships between the phenomena of personal identity and tolerance,identify the presence of opposite approaches to this problem. The main thing in the problem of personal self-identification is the human essential parameter of identity. Only by understanding what the true essence of aperson is, it is possible to clarify the question of whether an individual in his culture is identical to trulyhuman principles. Identity issues are addressed when there are any problems. This issue is not raised in thecrisis-free stage of society's development. Therefore, although there is a well-known danger in the identitycrisis, namely, the danger of destabilizing the social situation, nevertheless, one should not treat the identitycrisis as an entirely negative process. The crisis is the threshold of the transition to a new, perhaps higherstage of social development. Therefore, the task is not to prevent any crises in society and culture, but to setthem the proper vector of development, to direct them in the right direction.