Open AccessTHE WORD AND THE SOCIAL WORLD. FOUNDATIONS OF THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL CONCEPT OF GUSTAV SHPET
Author(s) -
Liana Kryshevska
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
doksa
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2410-2601
DOI - 10.18524/2410-2601.2021.2(36).246779
Subject(s) - teleology , consciousness , epistemology , transcendence (philosophy) , word (group theory) , phenomenon , extension (predicate logic) , context (archaeology) , indeterminacy (philosophy) , originality , philosophy , linguistics , psychology , computer science , social psychology , paleontology , creativity , biology , programming language
The main aim of the article is the correlation between the concepts of the Word and the Social World, which are considered as basis for the Shpet’s phenomenological project. Their consideration requires the reconstruction of Shpet’s concept as a whole and its understanding as a project of phenomenological ontology. The concepts of the Social World and the Word are concretized through the context of two complementary parts of Shpet’s thought: the structure of intentional consciousness and the structure of the word.Their explanation indicates the main core of Shpet’s concept — the establishing of sense and the possibility of its grasping in consciousness. The establishing of sense in a Word, which Shpet understands as the prototype of any phenomenon, is revealed in the internal form of the word. The grasping of sense is revealed in the hermeneutic acts of consciousness.This makes it possible to understand these concepts as well as the originality of Shpet’s philosophy. The category of sense is pointed out as the main category.It postulates the ontological status of actuality, its essence as an integrity of the ideal and the originary givenness. For Shpet this actuality is a Social World and its Phenomena, which Shpet defines as Word. It is based on the law of manifestation of sense, it is the “translation” of the transcendence into an image and is defined by Shpet in its teleology.