Community of fraternities and the state

Abstract

The article substantiates the topology of the brotherhood. The brotherhood is shown as a community based on a commonality of views and attitudes. N. F. Fedorov was the first thinker who, back in the 19th century, conceived the brotherhood community as a perfect community, and for all mankind. In Modern Philosophy, R. Barth and J. Agamben returned to the topic of the brotherhood community. Creating a perfect community is an urgent topic of our time. The purpose of the article is to model a perfect community based on the ideas of monastic brotherhood. As a result, the work shows that this community is generated by spiritual interaction and exists in a certain rhythm of its own (idiorhythm). The idiorhythm of the brothers, according to topological patterns, is expanded into a «house», and what is set in the rules in the behavior of the brothers is not just fulfilled by them, but is lived and transformed into a form of life. The scientific novelty lies in the topological orientation of the research. According to social topology, the realization of the «place» of time occurs through specific social interactions and practices. In understanding the scheme of sociality, we rely on the «ascending ontology» of M. Deland, which we complement with concepts such as «home» and «country». As a result, the scheme of sociality becomes as follows: «individuals – house – institutions – city – state – country». As the main conclusions, it is emphasized that fraternities are a perfect social form of community and are constructed in the form of «brothers – houses – practices – self-organizing and self-governing brotherhood – state – country». Interactions in the brotherhood are based on organic relationships, but nevertheless they carry the need for a state organization of communication between people who find themselves connected by spiritual solidarity, patriotic love, worthy and courageous deeds. Modernity has the character of a «posthuman sociality», people have to coexist with non–human beings – machines, robots, cyborgs and artificial intelligence. Humanity will be able to interact with artificial intelligence if it is spiritually transformed and is able to create a perfect community like a monastic brotherhood.

Keywords

• social topology
• social time and space
• scheme «individuals – houses – institutions – cities – state – country»
• idiorhythmia «brothers – houses – practices – self-organizing and self-governing brotherhood – state – country»