Sein und Zeit of the Belarusian Nation

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Abstract

[In Russian]

In the Belarusian noosphere two types of thinking about national
identity can be found. The first one is essentially monological, i. e.
providing a number of unquestioned and undiscussable concepts of
the «true face» of the Belarusian nation. As the exemplification of
this type of thinking the author lists two ideologies: the Belarusian
state ideology and the nationalistic ideology of the Conservative
Christian Party of Zianon Paźniak. The second type of the identity
thinking is pluralistic and dialogical, providing public discussion as
the way of finding of the optimal formula of the Belarusian identity. The main thesis of this paper is that each type of the identity
thinking is inspired by a different ontology: the first (monological)
is deeply connected with the substantialistic interpretation of Aristotle’s ousia, while the second one (dialogical) seems to be in close
connection with Heideggerian concept of ousia-physis, understood
as a «permanent bearing» and «permanent being born». The author tries to show the significance of Heidegger’s ontology as the
potential source of the developing of the dialogical culture in the
Belarusian public sphere.