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2009 | 4 | 5-11

Article title

SENSE AND FREEDOM (Smysl i svoboda)

Title variants

Languages of publication

UK

Abstracts

EN
The article investigates the determination of human action by cognitive normative structures grounded in culture. Descriptive and normative approaches to the definition of culture are compared. The author proposes to apply the notion of ideal element, developed in logics and semantics, to the analysis of social action. Ideal elements do not have any immediate correlates in empirical reality. They contain loose assumptions and idealizations that contribute to the development of language and theory. Among the ideal elements of the heritage of the European civilization, the author distinguishes the idea of the person or 'legal personality', which also includes the concepts of the agent and the bearer of free citizenship. The article investigates ancient roots of this idea related to the notion of persona. A tension in Roman culture is stated between the personalist paradigm of the 'soul-image-name' and its background in archaic moral and legal beliefs.

Year

Issue

4

Pages

5-11

Physical description

Document type

ARTICLE

Contributors

  • Myroslav Popovich, Institute of Philosophy named after Hr. Skovoroda, NAS of Ukraine, vul. Triokhsviatytelska, 4, 01001, Kyiv, Ukraine.

References

Document Type

Publication order reference

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier
10UAAAAA08101

YADDA identifier

bwmeta1.element.19c3bb76-d2ff-3a52-b51d-d55b75f6b453
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