p Kach man is a personality, i. e., a bearer of socially significant traits. That is to say, each person is at one and the same time a product of the social environment and an original and unique expression ol this environment, ol the general in life and in his or her social group. Social traits of greater or less degree are inherent in every personality inasmuch as man is switched into the system ol social relationships. While it recognises the social essence ol the personality, historical materialism does not dismiss man’s purely biological and psychological traits.

p The structure of the personality comprises : (I j social orientation, world outlook, interests, needs, moral traits; (2) specific individual make-up temperament, endowments, elementary needs; (3) experience the extent and quality of available knowledge, skills, and habits; (4) individual peculiarities ol various psychological processes.

p All components of that personality are to a greater or less degree dependent on the world outlook, the latter being the core of this structure. 193 To reveal the essence of the personality is to analyse the nature of its world outlook. An individual world outlook is the privilege of every person as a social and thinking being. There is no such thing as a person without a world outlook, that is to say, without notions or ideas of the world and of man’s place in it, or of the meaning of human life.

p The world outlook is the ultimately generalised and systcmatised view of the surrounding world - the natural phenomena, society, and oneself-as well as man’s principal attitudes, convictions, socio-political, ethical and aesthetic ideals and principles of cognition and evaluation of material and intellectual phenomena stemming from this general picture of the world.

Kach personality assimilates the values of the life of society in its own way, to a different degree. The greater the degree to which the personality assimilates obtaining specific historical social relations, the more significant it is; the richer it is, the more fully does it express the essence of the given social relations.