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| Article name | Heuristic Nature of the Disease in Modern Foreign Studies: Problems of Philosophical Approaches and Search for Essential Alternative |
| Authors | Galochkina N.E. Postgraduate Student, galonatasha@yandex.ru |
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| Section | SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY |
| UDK | 316:1:61 |
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| Annotation | The article presents a critical analysis of foreign philosophical concepts of the middle of the XXth century in the search of the essential foundations of the disease. The necessity of handling the works of foreign philosophers is substantiated in the article. It is noted that unresolved questions of the essential components of the disease have determined conceptual pluralism in this area, such as the objective, subjective, hybrid, alternative and social concepts. The author shows pluralism of views on the phenomenon of the disease, which is stipulated by the multiplicity and ambiguity of the phenomenon regarded. The dispute between the proponents of the objective (from the standpoint of real essence) and the subjective (from the standpoint of nominal essence) concepts has been tried to be resolved by the authors of the hybrid and alternative concepts of the disease where supporters of the hybrid approach combined objective and subjective representations, as imitators of the alternative conceptual measurement denied any essence of the disease. Strong and weak sides of the foreign philosophical concepts are highlighted in the article. The problem of the philosophical approach to the study of this phenomenon is pointed out. It is noted that none of the existing concepts is sufficient to provide a comprehensive philosophical definition of the disease due to a methodological “vacuum” concerning this phenomenon. In conclusion an attempt is made to justify the author’s social and philosophical understanding of the disease. |
| Key words | the essence of the disease, the objective concept, the subjective concept, the hybrid concept, the alternative concept, the social concept, conceptual pluralism |
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