Macro- and Micro-Philosophy of self-consciousness

The given article is dedicated to analysis of one of fundamental categories of philosophy - self- consciousness. The main emphasis has been put not so on the definition of self-consciousness, as on analysis of correlation of self-consciousness and «I». General theoretical reason of the article is concluded in denotation of the thesis of social, cognizable and changeable human essence, which is determined by the temporal component: the past, the present and the future. Basing on a wide experience of the study of self-consciousness structure within the frames of philosophy, psychology, sociology, religious theory and practice, the author of the article follows the classics in the problem of self-consciousness and once again underlines the importance and the necessity of analysis, first of all, of social nature of self-consciousness, determining the content and the structure of self-consciousness, and, consequently, the content and the structure of human «ego».