Humanitarian thought of three professors of the Yakutsk University in the light of formulating the principle of ethno-regional consensus

Abstract

Leading Yakut social scholars – Avksenty Mordinov and Georgy Basharin –always stood up for the consent and cooperation of the multinational people of Yakutia. The article actualizes the issue of the legitimacy of including the name of Viktor Mikhailov in this series, whose conceptual work “Philosophy of Consent” reflects the paradigm of civil consent, which concludes the basis of the phenomenon of national consent. All three were concerned about the problems of solving the ethnic issue, which throughout the entire period of the existence of the USSR and the post-Soviet period became the subject of both scholarly research and specific political decisions of the authorities. The aim of the study is to assess the place of scholarly creativity of Professor Mikhailov in a number of works by Mordinov and Basharin, scholars in humanities of the Yakutsk University, on the issue of identifying the main condition for the success of socio-cultural modernization in the republic. The methods of philosophical classification of the evolution of culture, cultural studies and general scientific methods of analysis and comparison are used. The paper shows that the common research line of the three professors was a way to take into account the existing types of conception – mythological and metaphysical in the context of the socio-cultural modernization of the Sakha ethnic group during the transition of their culture from pre-modern to modern. All three wished for a productive implementation of the existence of two types of conception of the world within the framework of their methodological approaches, finding the main condition for the implementation of the principle of national-ethnic harmony in the Republic of Sakha. Mordinov, Basharin and Mikhailov became persons belonging to the Yakut cultural renaissance of the late 20^th – early 21^st centuries.