PERSONAL CONSCIOUSNESS AS A PROBLEM. PART I

Abstract

Methodologically based on the philosophical and anthropological ontology of Sergey Rubinstein the article presents philosophical-psychological concept of consciousness as an integrator of personal existence. The authors of the study suggest rethinking the issue of pattern - of - thought inheritance, which brings to existence comprehension of consciousness as it is. Historical, comparative, axiological, teleological, as well as complex and systematic investigation approaches are used in the analysis of the phenomenon of consciousness. In the study, the following research principles are applied: co-relation of biological and social, principle of personality, principle of consciousness-activity unity, principle of potentiality and actuality (of implicit and explicit). The conclusive theoretical statement of the first part of the article reveals the authors’ view on the phenomenon of consciousness as a specific functional complex of personality’s self-realization. Consciousness ensures personality’s ever-unique self-identification in his/her life path.