The concept of man

Abstract

From the point of view of classical philosophy, a person thinks in terms of concepts. Although the term "concept" was established only in the XIX century, this thesis became a general place that does not require proof. I. Kant wrote: Thinking is cognition through the concept"1. According to G. Hegel, thinking is realized as a self-cognizing truth. In the concept, truth is achieved, and the randomness and appearance of contemplation and representation are overcome. In the philosophical-materialistic tradition, thinking is represented as a process of cognitive activity characterized by a generalized reflection of reality in the concept. Thus, in classical philosophy, thinking was closely connected with the concept. But in modern Philosophy, Linguistics and Cultural studies, there is an idea that people think not only in concepts. Domestic linguists, foreign and domestic philosophers argue that in addition to the concept, there is another structural unit of thinking, namely the concept. This "introduction" of the concept into the structure of thinking naturally attracted attention to it: there was a desire to study the concept and, above all, to analyze its relationship with the concept since a clearer understanding of thinking in general, philosophical and scientific thinking, in particular, depends on it. The relation between concept and concept can be viewed in another way as a prototype of the distinction between classical and non-classical thinking. The solution to this question can help to take a fresh look at the movement developed in the philosophy of the XX century towards overcoming classical metaphysics. Explication of the relation of the concept with the concept as forms of thinking, the concept of "concept" itself touches on fundamental issues for the theory of cognition as a whole, for example, the problem of forming general concepts.