Philosophical and political analysis of the concept of political identity of a person

The article analyses the essence of a person’s political identity in terms of the involvement in institutional interaction with the subjects of the political environment. The author studies the main approaches to the essence of the political identity of a person, points to the unity of its collective and individual components. The distinction is made between the political and national identity of a person, which has a high heuristic and practical potential, since it allows the formation of specific forms of interaction between representatives of various national, ethnic and other social groups living in a separate state. Moreover, such important principles of a personal political identity are highlighted as a set of political principles that determine the normative basis of a person’s identity, a set of ideas about the unique essence of a particular state and a set of ideas about the historical past of a political community.