Mentality Duality of a Man of Traditional Culture of Siberia and the North: Combination of Empirical and Mystical Mythological Aspects
In this article the duality of mentality of a man of traditional cultures of Siberia and the North is characterized by a combination of empirical and pre-ioglcal elements of mentality. Empirical element of mentality of a man of traditional culture embodies individual practical experience of formal-logical order. But being indifferent to the objective cause and effect relationships of the phenomena, he reveals particular attentiveness to manifested and hidden mystical links between phenomena, the basis of which is the law of mystical contiguity of cause and effect. As a result of domination of such law a man of traditional society makes his behavior in the culture. This explains the duality of mentality of a man of traditional culture of Siberia and the North, whose empirical intuition is subjected to the «supreme collective notions*.
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Issue: 4, 2002
Series of issue: Humanities (Philosophy, Cultural Science, History)
Rubric: Philosophy and History of Culture
Pages: 49 — 55
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