In the year of the 300th anniversary of the birth of I. Kant, the authors of the article turn to some basic provisions of the philosophical anthropology of the German thinker in connection with the social demand for the development of a consistent state cultural policy in Russia, focused, on the one hand, on creating conditions for the self-determination of the individual, the realization of his creative freedom, and, on the other, on strengthening social solidarity and actualizing the consolidating potential of the cultural core of Russian culture. The text problematizes, from the point of view of the modern cultural situation, the idea of man as the starting and ending “point” of goal-setting for individual and social action; the Kantian interpretation of freedom and its boundaries, the social nature of the “self-concept” are actualized.

Analyzing the possibilities of adapting the Kantian method and its anthropological attitudes to the modern discourse of state cultural policy, the authors of the article focus on the conceptual rigor of I. Kant’s philosophy. Terminological certainty, according to the authors, is an important task not only of scientific discourse. It is no less important in the development of official state documents. The changes taking place in modern culture require the “tuning” of conceptual tools and the creation of explanatory models adequate to the observed cultural changes. The pragmatic meaning of clarifying scientific terminology at the level of the official discourse of state cultural policy lies, in particular, in the ability to take into account and differentiate two important vectors of human self-determination and self-realization in modern culture. On the one hand, this is the process of forming a common civil identity based on conventional cultural values, and on the other hand, the constantly multiplying practices of individual self-presentation, various forms of identity simulation, imitation and mystification.