Value intelligence as a means of installation of theoretical axiology in the modern social and cultural space and in education

Abstract

The purpose of the presented work is to reveal the scientific and methodological potential of a new concept of “value intelligence”. Achieving this goal caused necessity to solve a number of problem tasks: 1) to outline the content of value intelligence, 2) to demonstrate the theoretical prerequisites for conceptualizing this type of intelligence, 3) to substantiate the meaning of value intelligence for modern axiology; 4) to present the interdisciplinary nature of value intelligence.The methodological basis of the research is determined by its theoretical nature and predicts the use of general theoretical and analytical methods of scientific research in combination with historical and systemic approaches that provide the opportunity to solve the formulated scientific tasks.The first part of the article indicates that value intelligence is a characteristic of human consciousness and appears as a specific cognitive quality of the individual. At the same time, value intelligence, which implies the presence of certain skills and abilities, is a dynamic phenomenon and correlates with a certain social and cultural space, its values and value hierarchies in its development. In accordance with the logic of our research, the second part of this research is focused on the philosophical and theoretical connection of value intelligence with important concepts of modern science: “social intelligence” and “emotional intelligence”. The article also determines the importance of value intelligence for modern axiology and substantiates the position that ideas developed within the limits of axiological knowledge can be implemented in various fields precisely with the help of the concept of “value intelligence”. This position is based on the thesis about the normative and constructive content of values for the personality and society. At the final stage of the research, the specific status of value intelligence and its belonging to the spheres of axiology and pedagogics are shown, since the specified type of intelligence is a complex integral formation, the important elements of which are cognitive, motivational and activity components.As a result, the research states that (1) the phenomenon of intelligence and its various forms as a trend of modern social and humanistic knowledge deserves special attention, (2) it is possible to introduce the concept of “value intelligence”, which is based on the idea of the multiplicity of manifestations of the phenomenon of intelligence, (3) the importance of value intelligence for adequate and effective response to the challenges of the social and natural environment, (4) the need for the synthesis of axiological knowledge and pedagogical practice for the effective formation of value intelligence.