Dialectics of the interest of active and creative personality

  • Nataliya Yukhimenko Ph.D. in Philosophy, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Philosophy of the HSEE «Pereiaslav- Khmelnytskyi Hryhorii Skovoroda State Pedagogical University»
Keywords: interest, personality, need, value, self-realization of the person, society.

Abstract

The article defines the needs as the basis of human interests. It is noted that interests, as well as needs, are the driving force of activity, behavior and actions of people. In the theoretical substantiation of the process of self-actualization of the individual, the question of the formation, awareness and realization of the interests of individuals occupy an important place. After all, the problem of the relationship between morality and interest is complex and multifaceted, it unfolds in a number of independent aspects and problems, in particular: interest and morality, interest and humanism, interest and education of man, the influence of the environment on the formation of human interests, the balance of social and personal interests.

It is emphasized that the modern concept of personal interest is a strange blend of two opposing concepts: Kalvin and Luther’s – on the one hand, and the concept of progressive thinkers, starting with Spinoza – on the other. Consequently, the public interest has a definite structural composition, which is associated with the depth characteristics of social life.

The peculiarity of political interests is that they are closely linked to the mechanism and methods of exercising power in society. In the political interests of active people, considered in their direct empirical existence, the attitude towards the system, state, party, public institutions, and the authorities is expressed. One of the important sources of development and stimulation of spiritual interests is the professionalization in various fields of spiritual creativity. It is emphasized that it is through professionalization that the mastery of the secrets of spiritual production is carried out, through which the past achievements of culture and civilization receive new incentives for life, are modernized, become the subject of the spiritual interests of present generations.

It is found out that the needs of interests and values are close and at the same time not identical fundamental concepts. They are made in the history of public opinion to indicate the immediate causes of social action, as a result of which there are changes and transformations in various spheres of life. Therefore, the philosophical analysis of these categories is inseparable from the study of real life situations, social practices, from the analysis of the actual problems facing our society. Values are disclosed as interests that were separated during the development of history itself through the division of labor in the sphere of spiritual production. But it is stated that objects of such interests, objects of human aspirations in this case is a certain spiritual meaning, which is in a special concentration of feelings and thoughts embodied in models of beautiful, true, kind, noble.

However, the most effective form of connection between values and interests is the connection between certain traditions, directions, schools of spiritual creativity and political institutions that determine the life of society at the moment.

References

Helʹvetsiy, 1994 – Helʹvetsiy K.A. Pro lyudynu, yiyi rozumovi zdibnosti ta yiyi vykhovannya. Kyіiv: Osnovy, 1994. 415 s.
Zdravomyslov, 1997 – Zdravomyslov P.H. Potrebnosty. Ynteresy. Tsennosty. Moskva: Polytyzdat, 1986. – 223 s.
Lohvynenko, 1997 – Lohvynenko O. Osmyslennya roli rozumu v tvorakh ukrayinsʹkykh myslyteliv kintsya XVI – persha pol. XVII st. u tvorakh H.S.Skovorody // Skovoroda Hryhoriy: Obraz myslytelya. Kyyiv, 1997. S.47-56.
Maslou, 1999 – Maslou A.H. Motyvatsyya y lychnostʹ. Sankt-Peterburh: Evrazyya, 1999. 478 s. Spynoza, 1957 – Spynoza B. Yzbr. Proyzv. V 2-kh t. Moskva: Polytyzdat, 1957. T.1. 632 s. T.2. 728 s. Frankl, 1990 – Frankl V. Chelovek v poyskakh smysla. Moskva: Polytyzdat, 1990. 368 s.
Fromm, 1992 – Fromm Е. Chelovek dlya sebya. Mynsk: Kolehyum, 1992. 253 s.
Yum, 1966 – Yum D. Traktat o chelovecheskoy pryrode yly popytka prymenytʹ osnovannyy na opyte metod rassuzhdenyya k moralnym predmetam // Kn.III. O Moraly. Sochynenyya v 2-kh tomakh. T.1. Moskva: Myslʹ, 1966. S.599-788.
Yunh, 1995 – Yunh K.H. Konflykty det·skoy dushy. Moskva: Kanon, 1995. 334 s.
Yanh, 1991 – Yanh Е. Pryntsypy samoorhanyzatsyy / Synerhetyka y budushchee: Per. s anhl. Sankt- Peterburh: ORYS, 1991. S.174-186.
Published
2016-03-15
How to Cite
Yukhimenko, N. (2016). Dialectics of the interest of active and creative personality. HUMANITARIUM, 39(3), 157-166. Retrieved from https://humanitarium.com.ua/index.php/hum/article/view/431
Section
Philosophy