The crisis of bourgeois tationalism and the problem of the human personality: Kyiv, Naukova Dumka, 1974, 159 p.

The study presents the analysis of the understanding of social "regulators" of human activity. The author sees French personalism and existentialism as attempts to overcome "classical rationalism" by means of "existentialisation" of reason, where reason is seen as the main "regulator" of human activity. The book demonstrates the problems of the depersonalization of a human in the course of the historical process, the justification of the use of the category of "person", the relationship between pure reason and morality, the understanding of the social nature of reason and cognition, and the problem of rationalist methodology, which is based on the idea that the world can be fully comprehended by reason alone. Clarifying the social conditionality and noting the methodological shortcomings of Western philosophical concepts, the author presents the Soviet interpretation of the Marxist principle of socio-historical practice as the key to solving the problem of social "regulators" of human activity.

Contents

Introduction

The idealistic "existentialisation" of reason

The superpersonality of the reason in classical rationalism and its interpretation in "humanistic" trends

     Cogito in subjective idealistic movements

     Cogito in objective idealistic movements

The impersonality of "pure reason" and moral imperatives

     The Kantian concept of "pure reason" as a self-negation of the Cartesian cogito

     Religious "existentialisation" of Kantian epistemology

     From "existentialised" to "dialogical" consciousness

The problem of the "other" in cogito

From the "existentialisation" of the mind to the "personalisation" of the world

Reducing nature to an "experienced environment"

Fetishization of the impersonality of social relations

     Limitations of personalist "anti-individualism"

     Attempts at an idealistic understanding of the modern scientific and technological revolution

     From apology to the undervaluation of the history

     Religious interpretation of the superpersonal character of the history

Basic principles of dialectical-materialist analysis of the problem of superpersonal "regulators" of human activity

Methodological significance of the principle of social and historical practice for overcoming "gnoseologism"

The difference between various planes of interaction between the "personal", "superpersonal" and "impersonal"

     The superpersonality of cognition and the structure of a personality

     Antagonistic social relations and the "depersonalization" of the history

Material prerequisites for the formation of the structure of a personality of the subject of the historical process

Conclusion