Author(s): Vitaly V Goncharov, Jacek Zalesny
The authors analyze the social being and ideology of global constitutionalism as an interconnected and interdependent social and philosophical phenomenon. The analysis substantiates the position that the social being of global constitutionalism as an ideology is characterized by two interconnected and mutually determined processes. On the one hand, the ideology of global constitutionalism is formed as a form of reflection of the objectively emerging reality of social being, based on the processes of globalization of the socio-political, state-legal and financial-economic development of national societies and states on a global scale. On the other hand, global constitutionalism as an ideology forms the goals of the development of society at the global (international) and national (state) level, followed by imposing of them on national states and societies everywhere. The article discusses various approaches to the definition of ‘ideology’, which the authors defines as a socio-philosophical phenomenon, which is an integral property of social being inherent in any society, and so objectifying social reality through the spiritual activity of a person by means of meaning formation through a generalization of the individual uncertainties of social being with their subsequent cooperation in a single system. This system facilitates the determining of the content of social development in a single coordinate system of concepts and values in a specific period of time, acting as the core worldview of a society at a certain stage of its development, as well as a system of criteria by which individuals realize social being in general, self-identification in the surrounding social reality, as well as the formation of their attitude to it. Thus, it permits the investigation of the various levels of the unfolding ideology as properties of social being. The authors substantiate the position that the ideology of global constitutionalism is in epistemological contradiction with the state (intra-state) ideology. The article analyzes the characteristics of the state ideology, which the author defines as a dynamic ideology imposed by the dominant in society social classes and groups, as well as their unions that affected all aspects of society and the state, which is a particular ideological essence of the prevailing economic relations (the relations of property management), and establishes a certain epistemological ideal toward which the society and the state should strive to develop, and thus, it organizes, mobilizes and provides an information basis for this development The article also discusses the features of global constitutionalism as an ideological concept and the author's given definition. Thus, it is proved that the expansionary ideology of global constitutionalism, which presupposes the transformation of national legislation by the imposition on to it of an alien discourse-semantic mechanisms of power that are the result of the processes of social construction, that are organized and motivated by the global management elite for the benefit of the global manager class. Research objective: to investigate the social reality of the social concept of global constitutionalism as an ideology. Object of research: the phenomenon of globalization of socio-political, state-legal and financial-economic development of national societies and states as a phenomenon of social reality, highlighted in the social concept of global constitutionalism. Subject of research: theoretical content of the ideology of the social concept of global constitutionalism in relation to its social essence.