Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Problem of Self-consciousness and Conceptual Thinking in the Theory of Vigotsky: in the Spirit of “The Phenomenology of Spirit” by Hegel and “Ethics” by Spinoza

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2015 8 (8)
Authors
Kamiya, Eiji
Contact information
Kamiya, Eiji:Kyoto-Tachbiana University 34 Yamada-cho Oyake, Yamashina-ku, Kyoto 607-8175, Japan; E-mail:
Keywords
self-consciousness; concept; emotions; development; dialectics
Abstract

The article discusses the connection of the philosophy of Hegel and Spinoza in L.S. Vygotsky’s theory, one of the modern psychological theories. Our study is inspired by the desire to enrich his theory, which remains unfinished due to his short life. Speaking more precisely, Vygotsky took from the philosophy of Hegel not only the dialectical way of thinking, but also the idea of self-consciousness as understanding of the concept and spontaneous thinking. The theory of Spinoza provided him with the psychophysical problem of emotions and also the link “emotions-concepts- freedom”, which imply “knowledge of oneself and one’s own emotions” or self-consciousness. Therefore, in Vygotsky’s theory we find two big philosophers intersect in the idea of self-consciousness. This is the beginning of the enrichment of Vygotsky’s theory, which leads not only from the consciousness to the birth of self-consciousness as the second birth of man, but back from the second to the first birth of consciousness

Pages
1769-1787
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/19743

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