“IDEOLOGICAL IDEALISM” IN THE XXI CENTURY: “PARADISE” AS A PROBLEM OF “FAITH” AND “KNOWLEDGE”
A problem of the relationship between "faith" and "knowledge" is a historically traditional subject of a worldview discourse. Three main approaches have been formed in its discussion: "faith helps to know", "knowledge enlightens faith", "faith in the ideologically formed image of the world substitutes knowledge". In spiritual conditions of the postmodern era, the third approach to discussing the relationship between 'faith' and 'knowledge' is dominant. This article shows that the transformation of "faith" into a special foundation of "simulations of metaphysics of the postmodern", for the modern stage of the spiritual formation of mankind is not accidental, but responds to the need of man to "Salvation" in its modern form, acquiring in the conditions of artistic and ideological worldview creativity a kind of "search for an artistic image" of ideologically manifested "true being". Does this mean, for mankind, the final "post-mythological victory of faith over knowledge"? The question, alas, remains open for now.