Idealе and Ideelle

This paper is devoted to such an important philosophical question as the problem of ideal. The author distinguishes two senses of "ideal" and designates these meanings with German words "Ideelle" and "Ideale". The etymology of the terms Ideelle and Ideale is revealed, and the history of the given concepts is described. The three most authoritative conceptions of Ideelle and Ideale in Russia, the conceptions by D.I. Dubrovsky, E.V. Ilyenkov and M.A. Lifshitz, are analyzed and compared. The present research is an attempt to dialectically generalize these alternative approaches within the limits of "the synthetic conception of Ideelle and Ideale". Ideale is regarded as the substratum of any culture. The issue of the creator of the basic cultural Ideale is discussed.