O pojęciach abstrakcyjnych oraz zagrożeniach wynikających z ich nadużywania

Abstract

Language is the primary form of communication. Its role encompasses both the description of real reality and the definition of certain materially non-existent states. With social development, the burden of discourse is increasingly shifting from the physical to the metaphysical realm. Language becomes a tool for creating reality. The emergence of any concept serves to create a linguistic reality that facilitates understanding of the surrounding reality. In the case of abstract concepts, the creative function of language is particularly important. We can distinguish concepts that by their extensiveness include components of real states, such as love, evil, good. However, there are concepts whose creation was dictated only by the desire to justify the institution, such as dignity. Abstract concepts perform many social functions. Such a wide participation of abstract concepts in key areas of social life poses numerous threats to community functioning, development and peace, including by inhibiting scientific progress, ossification of institutional structures or breakdown of social ties. The purpose of the article is to raise awareness of the essence of given concepts in society and on the necessity of limiting the use of these concepts in key spheres of social life, such as law, politics and economics.