The Myth of Authority in Russian Philosophy

The myth always wants to be true, and therefore real, otherwise it lapses and passes into the fictional sphere. The authority expresses its correctness, and in this regard, it is based on truth or it froms their truths in order to preserve its justification. Myths possess their own founding instances, which grant them credibility. At the same time, the authority may resort to myths, old or new, to maintain its status. The fact is that myths and authorities oftenly work together and in the same way, in the collective mentality. We find these circumstances in societies that have been formed and developed based on a vertical social construction of a defined hierarchy. The consequences of such a state of affairs can, in fact, be formulated in terms of social passivity, where the population is lacking intiative, all the decisions being made by the dominant classes (political, economical, intelectual), and system functionality can be inferred from the excessive confidence in those who maintain their authority by reassuring citizens of their righteousness through various forms of propaganda, in order to maximize the diminishment of the critical spirit. In the approach that follows, I propose to analyze, in a historical-philosophical perspective, the premises of mythical order found at the base of the political authority in Russian space. What was the relationship between philosophy and authority, and how much do we talk about contemporary myths and their functionality?