Reality (produced from the word " action ") is a realized reality in its entirety - the reality of not only things , but also materialized ideas , goals , ideals , social institutions , and generally accepted knowledge .
Unlike reality, reality also includes everything ideal that took on a material, material character in the form of various products of human activity - the world of technology , generally accepted knowledge, morality , state , law . The concept of "reality" is not the opposite of the concepts of "illusion", "fantasy", which can also be realized, but the concept of " opportunity ". Everything possible can become valid.
The term "reality" has an epistemological connotation, in contrast to the term " matter ". The opposite of reality in actual reality is visibility (appearance) .
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History
One of the first in the use of Russian philosophy, the term reality in 1877 introduces V. S. Soloviev in the Notes to the Philosophical principles of whole knowledge . This word represented tracing paper with it. Wirklichkeit . The German word was introduced by Meister Eckhart as a translation of the scholastic concept of actualitas , which in turn goes back to the Greek term energy from Aristotle's philosophy. The word reality as an antithesis of ideas is actively used by Marx in German ideology .
V. I. Zhukovsky on this occasion notes that " if by reality we mean the world of things ( lat. Realis -" material "), then reality is the world of things with which they act ( lat. Dei -" figure ") " [1 ] .
See also
- Opportunity
- Matter (physics)
- Existence
Notes
- β Zhukovsky, 2011 .
Literature
- Zhukovsky V. I. Theory of Fine Arts. - SPb. : Aletheia , 2011 .-- 496 p. - 1000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-91419-440-3 .