Thought and feeling as a semantic opposition in the Russian humanities discourse

A.R. Akhmerova

Kazan Federal University, Kazan, 420008 Russia

E-mail: lavolkins15@mail.ru

Received May 23, 2017

Full text PDF

Abstract

The paper deals with the specifics of interpretation of the semantic opposition thought – feeling in the Russian humanities discourse. The research aims to show the complexity and ambiguity of personal conceptualization of the relationship between the components of the opposition under study on the basis of various humanities disciplines, as well as the naive world view. The author assumes that going beyond the dualistic concept should give the researcher an opportunity to see a broader and more multicolored image of the phenomena being studied.

It has been found that the philosophical opposition thought – feeling was a catalyst for scientific philosophical research, while various aspects of these polar categories (sense and reason, subjective and objective, body and spirit, etc.) were important in different periods of the development of philosophy. In psychology, the sphere of reason and feelings are also clearly differentiated. The problem of distinguishing between thought and feeling arises in the naive psychological world view.

It has been emphasized that the interpretation of the opposition thought – feeling can be a marker of cultural identity. The specificity of Russian culture occurs in its dialectical unity-contradiction of the mental and sensual principles.

The paper describes the features of linguistic interpretation of the opposition thought – feeling, which is one of the key ones in the structure of the naive linguistic model of the world. It has been revealed that the polarity of thought – feeling is not obvious from the linguistic point of view.

In general, it can be concluded that the study of the relations between the poles of the semantic opposition under study favors a more complete and “multicolored” idea of the intellectual-mental world of persons. The semantic opposition thought – feeling in the humanities discourse can expand to a multipolar model and include other conjugate categories.

Keywords: thought, feeling, semantic opposition, humanities discourse, naive linguistic world-view

References

1. Fromm E. Who Is Human? (From the Book “For the Love of Life”). Available at: https://sociology.mephi.ru/docs/sociologia/html/fromm_who_is_human.html. (In Russian)
2. Terkulov V.I. Anthropocentric paradigm: What happened? What will happen? Kognitsiya, Kommunikatsiya, Diskurs, 2012, no. 5, pp. 74–84. (In Russian)
3. Kubryakova E.S. Evolution of linguistic ideas in the second half of the 20th century (an attempt of the paradigm analysis). Yazyk i nauka kontsa XX veka [Language and Science in the Late 20th Century]. Moscow, Ross. Gos. Gumanit. Univ., 1995, pp. 144–238. (In Russian)
4. Akhmerova L.R. The basic ways of verbalization of psychological condition in psychotherapeutic discourse. Uchenye Zapiski Kazanskogo Universiteta. Seriya Gumanitarnye Nauki, 2010, vol. 152, no. 6, pp. 180–187. (In Russian)
5. Dmitrieva N.L. Reason against heart: “Dangerous Liaisons” by Choderlos de Laclos and “Adolphe” by Benjamin Constant). Vse istiny mira: Razum v literature i iskusstve [All Truths of the World: Reason in Literature and Art]. St. Petersburg, Tver, Izd. Mariny Batasovoi, 2016, pp. 35–42. (In Russian)
6. Psychotypology. Valerii Savel'ev's Model. Naglyadno-obraznoe i abstraktno-logicheskoe v psikhike [Visual Imaginative and Abstract Logical Phenomena in Psychology]. Available at: http:// psychotypology.vg-saveliev.ru/psihotipologiya-saveleva/5-naglyadno-obraznoe-i-abstraktno-logicheskoe/. (In Russian)
7. Wilber K. No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth. Available at: http://psylib.org.ua/books/uilbk01/txt02.htm. (In Russian)
8. Frank S.L. Philosophy and Religion. Available at: https://azbyka.ru/filosofiya-i-religiya. (In Russian)
9. Kozlov N.I. Thoughts, Feelings, and Sensations. Available at: http://www.psychologos.ru/ articles/ view/myslizpt_chuvstva_i_oschuscheniya. (In Russian)
10. Akhmerova L.R. The idea of anger in naïve psychology represented in the Russian linguistic worldview. Uchenye Zapiski Kazanskogo Universiteta. Seriya Gymanitarnye Nauki, 2009, vol. 151, no. 6, pp. 167–175. (In Russian)
11. Polyakova E.A. Apology of criticism. A response to Olga Sedakova's book “Apology of Reason”. Novyi Filologicheskii Vestnik, 2012, no. 3, pp. 36–43. (In Russian)
12. Round Table Conference “Today's Slavophilism and Westernism”. Strategiya Rossii, 2015, no. 1, pp. 6–24. (In Russian)
13. Bazhov S.I. “Russian idea”: Studies on the cultural identity in the philosophical thought of Russia during the 19th century. Istoriya Filosofii, 1998, no. 2, pp. 58–68. (In Russian)
14. Likhachev D.S. Russian Culture. Moscow, Iskusstvo, 2000. 440 p. (In Russian)
15. Zaliznyak A.A., Levontina I.B., Shmelev A.D. The Constants and Variables of the Russian Linguistic World View. Moscow, Yaz. Slavyan. Kul'tur, 2012. 696 p. (In Russian)
16. Gak V.G. Logical Analysis of Language. Mental Activities. Prostranstvo mysli (opyt sistematizatsii slov mental'nogo polya) [The Space of Thought (An Attempt to Arrange the Words of the Mental Field)]. Moscow, Nauka, 1993, pp. 22–29. (In Russian)

For citation: Akhmerova L.R. Thought and feeling as a semantic opposition in the Russian humanities discourse. Uchenye Zapiski Kazanskogo Universiteta. Seriya Gumanitarnye Nauki, 2017, vol. 159, no. 5, pp. 1187–1199. (In Russian)

The content is available under the license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.