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| Article name | “Subject” and “Substance”: Defining the Concepts |
| Authors | Davydov A.A. Candidate of Culturology, Senior Lecturer, nipirogov2009@yandex.ru |
| Bibliographic description | Davydov A. A. “Subject” and “Substance”: Defining the Concepts // Humanitarian Vector. 2017. Vol. 12, No. 1. PP. 94–99. |
| Section | PHILOSOPHY OF THINKING AND COGNITION |
| UDK | 111.3 |
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| Annotation | The paper analyses ontologically fundamental concepts of “subject” and “substance”. The methodological basis for this research is the dialectic paradigm with its principles of consistency and development complemented by the hermeneutic method. The author examines the etymology of the discussed concepts and attempts to clarify their definitions. To carry out a proper demarcation between these concepts special attention is paid to exploring historical and philosophical materials. According to the tradition of Aristotle, R. Descartes, B. Spinoza, idealistic and materialistic philosophy of the 19–20th centuries substance is interpreted as a reality that needs nothing whatsoever for its existence, as a self-causal being. The concept of “subject” is viewed based on the definitions of G. W. F. Hegel and M. Heidegger who treat this problem in accordance with the medieval intellectual tradition: subject is primary, object is derivative from it. The statement of Alexander Kozhev about the role of negation in the characteristic of a subject and its differentiation from a substance is critically and constructively considered. The author concludes that a subject is more active than a substance. This activity is probably shown primarily in a contradictory return of the subject to itself. |
| Key words | subject, substance, being, ontology, activity, action, universals |
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