The Power of Rules and the Rules of Power

The following article considers the universal rules created by power and defining ethical aspects of the basic spheres of society life. The attention is focused on the difficulties arising from the disappearance of the general ethics and contemporary coexistence of different ideologies, life styles, strategies and values in the modern societies. Besides, the culture, science, politics, religion, family, private life, job, leisure, which have always made an impact on each other, today are not related regulatory; the dynamics of their development follows its own regularity, directed on different aims and circumstances. As a result, the solution of one of the key problems of any social system – the reproduction of meaning of life becomes exigeant. The proof of that – is the global trend of a renewed interest in social-political practice in historically stable forms of identification: social, gender, ethnical, religious. Today, surviving due to each other and competing with each other, Russian citizens orientate on the interests and beliefs defined by themselves, not by the universally binding ones, without submitting to any unified goal or idea. Such a doubtful freedom of choice leads to the people considering equivalent the following: sovereignty and safety of the state, patriotism, rebirth of national industry and wage increase, expansion of consumption possibilities. In Russian society, social-cultural models of life style of the political elite complicate the situation. In the reality, directing a man on the use of economic principles in all the areas of life, without noticing the huge amount of vital problems, contributes to the different social groups realizing their own interests and determining in the boundaries of good and evil by themselves.