UNITY OF MIND AND BEING (FROM THE EXPERIENCE OF TEACHING PHILOSOPHY)

Abstract

The paper is based on the experience of teaching Philosophy to students of V. P. Astafyev Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University, the topic of the paperemerging from the problems discussed in lectures and seminars. The author investigates the problem of correlation of mind and being; the question of how a person acquires a priori knowledge about the world as a whole is raised; the gnoseological aspect of the problem of the identity of thinking and being is emphasized. Thus, the object of the study is the way we know that thinking is identical with existence; the very notion of «peace»becomesthe object of research as well: what it is and how it corresponds to the concept of «being».