IDEAL EXISTENCE OF A SOCIAL RELATION
Authors: NEVELEV ANATOLY B. 
Published: February 2025

Ideal being is considered in the article as funded by the social relation, which appears at its realization in two kinds, in the form of the relation “man - man” and in the form of the natural relation “man - nature”. The social relation at the level of ideal being appears as a social thought form, the natural relation at the same level appears as a natural thought form. These two kinds of ideal being act as poles of a single thought form that supports the independence of ideal being. The dialectic of the material and ideal is conjugated with the dialectic of the subject and the energetic. Object being is interpreted as coming before meta. Meta marks the being of man and is present in material and ideal being. The identification of the material and the subject is inadmissible. Ideal being is as much subject as material being. The semantic emphasis in this case is placed on the marking cultural means that mediates the social relation. It is it that brings specificity, particularity into this or that subject definiteness of being. The law of the inverse relation between subjectivity and energeticity encompasses the hierarchy of material and ideal being as a whole. And the mentioned subject specificity, depending on the cultural means, brings into the sphere of theoretical consideration separate (special) layers of subject being. In our opinion, it is the presence of cultural means in the structure of social relation that allows us to differentiate a single subject field into layers of being, if we use the categories introduced into philosophical turnover by N. Hartmann. Accordingly to the subject layers of being, the understanding of subject identity of man and his ideal being is introduced. Culture as an internally indistinguishable means of relation to the world sets the subject quality of human being as a whole. Even in the very etymology of the word “culture”, which contains “cult” - worship, reproduction, it is already assumed that the initial marking of human existence by certain forms that have been formed over the centuries, and as traditions are steadily reproduced, organizing the active existence of people. The sphere of education is only busy with the fact that it transmits this significant marking to new generations, bringing schematically fixed norms into the consciousness of new generations, along the contour of which the teacher, educator leads young thinkers. Active being from its subject side includes two tendencies: the tendency of objectification and the tendency of distribution. The historically arising markup of being presupposes a material-ideal cycle of object forms, in which the energetic indicators of human life undergo transformation. Thus, the ideal forms of activity, defined in instruments of labor, are distributed in two ways depending on the layers of people’s object existence. The material identity of man prevails here, and the character of displacement here is predominantly non-ideal. The second layer of object being - symbolic - includes a significant and important ideal component, which cannot be neglected as easily as in the instrumental layer of being. The metamorphosis of the material component is significantly supplemented in the symbolic object layer by the metamorphosis of the ideal component. The spread of the ideal being actively interferes with the order of material being by virtue of its energetic saturation. In the transition to the second, symbolic subject layer of being, idealization means a quantitative increase of human creative freedom. It is it that creates the potential for ideal, cognitive intervention in the materially weighted first object layer of being.