The author considered the soul definition and individual worldview choice problems in modern Russia from a perspective of increasing worries about compared the said category definitions accepted in various historical epochs: before Bolshevik revolution, in Soviet and post-Soviet times. There is also analysis of suppositions that could lead the society to define a balance between culture’s material and spiritual constituents.
Keywords: soul; spirituality; worldview choice; idealism; epistemological realism; moral education.
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