SYMBOLICS IN THE NARRATIVE: ONTOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS

Authors

  • Pavlo KRETOV Educational and Scientific Institute of International Relations, History and Philosophy of Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy
  • Olena KRETOVA Educational and Scientific Institute of Foreign Languages of Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24919/2522-4700.41.14

Keywords:

symbol, auto-description, philosophy of education, philosophical anthropology, functionalism, representational approach, relativism, narrative

Abstract

The aim of the article is to study the content of the main intentions of the interpretation of the symbol in the context of anthropology of culture and philosophical anthropology and their correlation with the functioning of the semantic field of culture. The methodological principles of the article are the guidelines of philosophical anthropology, hermeneutics, philosophical symbolism, as well as elements of conceptual and phenomenological analysis. The article considers the concept of ontological turn related to philosophical anthropology, as well as epistemological and ideological views on the representative approach, functionalism and relativism on the concept of symbol. The correlation between narrative ontology and performative as a type of speech act, forms of human description of oneself and reality is outlined. It is revealed how exactly the stated tendency in cultural anthropology claims to create a new interpretation of ontological and epistemological problems in the context of philosophical anthropology. The cognitive potential of the concept of narrative ontology and its connection with the problems of philosophical anthropology are emphasized. Emphasis is placed on the ontological interpretation of the symbol in its functioning in the modern communicative space. The scientific originality of the article is represented by the study of the relationship between the aspect of nature and the specificity of the symbol in the symbolic self-description of man in philosophical projects (including narrative ontology), representing these cognitive positions and the current state of the communicative field of society. nature of the symbol. Conclusions. Virtual culture and philosophy of the XXI century postulate an ontology of virtual reality, within which symbols are able to actualize the conditional thesaurus of phylogenetic civilizational memory in the context of the horizon of human meanings. An ontologically interpreted symbol means not only its reality but also the creation of specific semantic space.

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Published

2021-03-01