THE SPIRIT OF THE PEOPLE AND NATIONAL IDENTITY IN A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY

This article discusses the issues of national spirit and national identity, which are not sufficiently studied in the socio-political and philosophical sciences. Naturally, in modern democratic processes, the spirit of the people is a powerful force, and a dialectical study of the self-consciousness of the people, which is the main driving force of the conceptual knowledge of history.  Accordingly, this issue is systematically retrospectively analyzed by Eastern and Western scholars based on the principles of historicity and modernity. The article shows the significance of the pragmatic nature of the national spirit and national identity.