Volume 41 (1986), 4

The author analyzes two approaches to problems of social consciousness. The first approach, based on the overemphasis of the antagonism of matter and consciousness, is characterized by the fact that 1. consciousness is reduced to cognition and is not conceived as totality of gnoseologic, semantic, axiologic, normative and active components, 2. consciousness is… Read more

The paper contains notes on the problem of primary and secondary formations of consciousness in connection with the socalled lag between the consciousness and being. The author holds that the dynamism of primary formations of consciousness is coincidental with the development of the base while secondary formations are bound to the form of the social whole and… Read more

Various aspects of activity are the object of examination not only of social or biological-medical sciences but also are the subject-matter of investigation in cybernetics, robotics and in artificial intelligence. The particular theories of activity may be divided into empirical, rationalist and normative ones according to their character and substance. In view of… Read more

The real lawfulness of the development of socialist society is not formed as immediate interaction of abstract structures of social being and social consciousness, on the contrary it is mediated by dialectics of social activity and social consciousness of concrete individual and group subjects of social life. In the social consciousness of these subjects spiritual… Read more

The paper consists of two parts. In the first one theoretical-methodological presuppositions of the examination of problems in question are given. In this connection the analysis is focused on gnoseological reduction of consciousness, on the role of the object-practical activity in the process of its forming, on personality as the bearer of consciousness. In the… Read more

In the contribution some aspects of the time determination of consciousness and activities of individuals from the point of view of dialectics of the past, present and future are elucidated. The indispensable role of the future as an open time dimension, understood in unity with the present and the past in the process of forming of socialist personality, its… Read more