Siberian Federal University

Issue

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2023 16 (12)

Authors

Sergeev, Andrei M.

Contact information

Sergeev, Andrei M.: Saint Petersburg State University Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation;

Keywords

space; world; living space; inner world; border; being “between”; binary; duality; metric; topic

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of the formation and existence of the living space of the individual, as well as ways of understanding it, when both an individual and a separate people can be understood as an individual. In this connection P. A. Florensky’s concept of understanding space about the multiplicity of human spaces is analyzed. A significant point in understanding individual life space is the crossing of the horizontal of existence with the vertical section, connected with the necessity of surpassing and deepening the horizontal of existence. The understanding of space is carried out on the basis of the individual’s presence in the world, thanks to which he is provided with the vastness and breadth of the world and endowed with the scope of its openness and power. At the same time, in setting the boundaries of his existence, the individual is bound to two sides of the border: the inner and the open. All this leads to the fact that a characteristic feature of the individual’s understanding of his ontological position is contradictory. The various aspects of this contradictory nature of all individuality are intermediarity, duality, and binarity. In view of this it is necessary to keep the very contradiction of thesis and antithesis in a fundamentally undiminished state, and any synthesis of them should be seen only as a temporary combination. An important point in understanding the individual life-space and individual existence is the inter esse position, where the individual is defined both in what “is” and in what “is not”. Another, no less important point in understanding the individual’s life space is to consider it in the optics of combining and opposing metrics and topics

Pages

2236–2247

EDN

IINRKG

Paper at repository of SibFU

https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/152390

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