Проблема философского содержания экономических понятий

Abstract

The philosophical content in the structure of scientific concepts is connected with the scientific picture of the world, through it – with the worldview paradigm. Taking into account this circumstance has a positive effect on the quality of scientific research. The relevance of the problem is confirmed by the example of the analysis of one of the fundamental concepts of economic science – the concept of “economic activity”. To analyze the transformation of this concept, the methods of sociophilosophical analysis are used: the comparative method, the system and dialectical approaches, the hermeneutic method, the method. The connection of the change in the philosophical content of the concept of “economic activity” with the change of scientific pictures of the world from antiquity to the present is revealed. The negative side of the accumulation of the meanings of the concept of “economic activity” in the course of its historical development is shown. The productive vector of economic theory development is indicated by clarifying the philosophical content in the structure of its concepts. The indicated principles can be used in the development of a universal method of studying the language of science in various fields of social and humanitarian knowledge.