THE SCIENTIFIC FORMATION PECULIARITIES OF THE "CULTURE" CATEGORY IN I.G. HERDER'S CREATIVE HERITAGE AND ITS INTERPRETATION AS THE BASIS OF NATIONAL IDENTITY

Herder carried out the study of culture as a complex system, considering the material and spiritual culture, showing the conditionality of its development by internal and external conditions, proved the historicity of culture. Each of the cultures reveals a way of determining a person's place in the world, a certain type of self-identification that is connected with the national consciousness. Herder proclaimed that the development of socio-cultural experience and the formation of national consciousness occurs in the education process. The philosopher defined cultural conformity as one of the basic principles of the organization of education and people's life in the state.