The Facets of Consciousness in the Formation of a Subjective Personality

Abstract

The relevance of the work is due to the vague understanding of self-consciousness in modern philosophy, the need to systematize methodological approaches to its study, and to determine the ontological status of subjec-tive experience. The aim of the work is to substantiate the importance of self-awareness in the construction of a holistic image of the world, in the functioning of consciousness, in the emergence of a unique subjective expe-rience. To achieve this goal, four methodological principles of research were formulated: the principle of integ-rity, the principle of autonomy, the principle of correlational intentionality, the principle of ontological freedom. The novelty of the work and its main postulates was, firstly, a new integral definition of self-awareness as a sense of reality, significance and uniqueness of one’s own being. Secondly, the structure of self-awareness is proposed, which consists of two interrelated levels: external, which actualizes the schemes of interpretation of empirical information and the definition of significance for the individual, and internal, which contains basic, a priori intentions, logical mechanisms and representations that exist before thoughts, before reflection, forming the integrity of the Self, synthesized into a conviction about the presence of oneself in the concreteness of per-sonal existence, which has unique characteristics. The conclusions of the work were the definition of the role of subjective experience, determined by the configuration of self-awareness, determining one’s place in being, in the genesis of motivation to create or structure ethos, values, social communities, and finding optimal commu-nicative and social distance between oneself and Others. The results of the study create a methodology for further research of self-awareness as the basis of the genesis of subjective experience and allow us to reveal the logical and intuitive mechanisms of critical thinking.