To the Problem of Authentic Interests of People

Abstract

The provision on triviality of the concept «public interest», and such options of his use as «the interest of the people», «the interest of the nation», «the interest of the class» is proved in article. It is noted that usually definition of this concept comes down to requirements and needs of some community that means that it in this case doesn’t bear in relation to them specific contents. On the other hand such definition of public interest contradicts understanding of interest of the personality which contacts its orientation. The unproductiveness of this concept is found and because society isn’t uniform education, and represents internally structured integrity which elements have an own need and needs.
Owing to this fact often found aspiration of politicians to speak on behalf of the interests of the people, is no more than rhetorical reception which isn’t expressing concrete contents. From here the conclusion becomes that in goal-setting of the politician a game the concept «interests of the people» has to be replaced with formulation of his own responsible choice concerning which he conducts dialogue with the population and which success has to be confirmed by concrete parameters of changes in various spheres of public life.
The attention that in the domestic cultural tradition reflected in the Russian religious philosophy, the philosophy of the interest understood in economic sense is replaced by service philosophy is paid.