Collegiality is a very broad concept. It covers all aspects of the life of an individual society, all moral, moral and ethical standards within it. Often opposed to individualism, egoism.
Many people interpret this concept ambiguously, not quite correctly. According to the philosophical dictionary, collegiality is the unity of all members of the Church to jointly find the path to salvation. This unity is based on the love of Christ and his divine righteousness, which has become available to every member of the Church. The authorship of the creation of the term is ascribed to the Russian philosopher A.S. Khomyakov. A large encyclopedic dictionary interprets collegiality as one of the signs of the Christian church, which captures its self-perception as universal and universal.
In the framework of collegiality, a person does not think of personal happiness outside of community, he can realize himself only in the case of dedicated work for the common good. Like the Slavophiles in the 19th century, modern Russian philosopher scientists contrast the Slavic collegiality of Western democracy. If in a democratic society the meaning of life becomes the recognition of the majority’s power to the detriment of the minority, then in the collegial this sense becomes the recognition of each other’s moral values, the acceptance of all members of the council as they are, perfecting themselves for a higher purpose. And the highest goal for a conciliar person is the creation of a socially just humanistic society. The difference between a conciliar society from a democratic one is in the mental community of individuals who are personally free. It does not abandon the institution of statehood at all.
They contrast catholicity to Catholicism, namely its authoritarianism; she has nothing in common with Protestant individualism, from which, in fact, modern democracy has grown.
To summarize, let’s say that collegiality is an internal completeness, a holistic combination of unity and freedom of people who are united by love for the same values. This is an exclusively Slavic, Orthodox understanding of the world.
