Socio-historical meanings, historical memory and individual reflexion on meaning of life: problem of correlation

The article considers the modern value system as a crisis of meanings. The crisis reasons are attributed to the dominance of the neo-European worldview. The quantifiable approach to the reality blocks the possibility of finding the life meanings. The conceptualized thinking is a method of discovering of such meanings. The individual values are determined by social and historical features of a person’s life. Relevance of the social values is determined by attributive ontological condition of the human being existence - to be among other people. The foundation developing and keeping the collective meanings is value representations of the common past. The socio-historical meanings are defined as values and meanings associated with current social communities.