Manuilskiy M.A. Identity as a modus of human nature. Human Being, 2019, Volume 30, Issue 1, pp. 29-44.

Abstract

An attempt is made to consider the role of identity as an integral part of human nature. The basis for this is the fundamental ability of a person to think about his destiny. Identity is understood as a multi-component anthropological phenomenon organized according to a hierarchical principle. The system of elements reflects the life world of a person and includes generic identity; gender (mane / female); national (ethnic); confessional; generational; family-related; civil; professional (labor); existential-creative. The main attention is paid to the boundary, butt parameters of the elements and their coherence with the fundamental form — generic identity. The article deals with the poorly investigated aspects of generational identity (the idea of the life path as its core), civil identity (in the center of which the need to feel rooted in a certain cultural and historical space), professional identity (the consequence of the transformative activity of a person is his transformation into an artifact), existential and creative identity, which is interpreted as a source of autopoesis     It is concluded that the statement in the course of evolution by the representative of the species Homo the question of identity meant the boundary separating the prehuman being from the being endowed with human nature.