The article is devoted to the study of the phenomenon of post-truth, which has become relevant in the modern era. The modern era is interpreted by public thought as postmodernism. The rapid revolutionary changes that are taking place in the life of society, caused by globalization and the development of high technologies, objectively cannot exclude the “side eff ects” of these processes. One of these eff ects is post-truth as a representation of non-existent prototypes, events and facts. There is an idea that the world today is in the “gray” zone of its development, because there is a reassessment of the values of all spheres of social life and consciousness in a quasi-scientifi c way, for example, a mixture of styles, images, methods, etc. Liberal values associated with the rights and freedom of the individual have reached their apogee and have lost their moral and ethical foundation, while freedom mutates into its extreme form — “ freedom without borders”, permissiveness, anarchy. Consciousness is in a gap with reality, outside of clear ideological coordinates. The author considers that it is important today to build an information policy, taking into account the moral traditions of the culture of society, and to determine the limits of the sovereignty of the ideological perspective in which society will develop.

The value of a personality, its socio-political role is a kind of indicator of the constitutional and legal status of the state as an institution that establishes and regulates a system of social relations and legal norms. Based on the analysis of a short period of Russian history, the article reveals the patterns of formation of scientific and axiological approaches of leading Russian liberal thinkers to the problem of the relationship between the individual and the state. Within the framework of the liberal discourse of Russian political thought, this topic was widely discussed in the middle of the 19th century due to its close contact with Western European culture and the introduction of liberal views and ideas into the socio-political life of the country. As is known, in classical liberalism, the rights and freedoms of an individual form the basis of legal definitions of the state and economic order, society being built on the assertion of civil liberties. Russian liberalism throughout the 19th century was characterized by a complex and sometimes contradictory understanding of individual liberty and the problem of interaction between the individual and the state: a person as a sovereign individual and at the same time as a subordinate part of the public-state space. These problems were the focus of attention of the leading thinkers and scholars of the period, united by the desire to consider an individual in his sovereign personal integrity, inscribed in the organic unity of a large sociocultural circle — the state.