Social perception of Bhagavad-gita in context philosophical reflection

The article considers the social perception (SP) of an Old Indian source (Bkhagavad-gita) as a philosophical problem in a context of post-nonclassical ideals of rationality. In the called aspect there is obvious an isomorphism of characteristics of the joint venture and ethical connotations of scientific knowledge interfaced to its dependence on means, values and the purposes pursued by the scientist. The Social Perception (SP) is a perception, understanding and an assessment people of these or those social objects. It is connected with the fact of social conditionality of process of perception. In this logic an ancient Indian source Bkhagavad-gita will be considered as social object. That is on the one hand, as the object allocated with certain social characteristics, with another as object of perception social subjects (groups and certain individuals). It is necessary to notice that in the course of SP the information is exposed to essential distortions which, according to social psychology, are a consequence of aprioristic expectations of the subject, stereotypic estimates, incorrect extrapolation of conclusions and other factors leading to an aberration of perception. It is difficult to keep from a parallel of the called characteristics of SP with obvious in a context of post-nonclassical ideals of rationality ethical connotations of scientific knowledge: dependence on the used means, professed values and the purposes pursued by the scientist. In the given logic it is almost impossible to draw a distinction between process of scientific knowledge and SP. According to V. Lefebvre and G. P. Schedrovitsky, subject activity can be considered as a reflection of a zero order, judgment of this activity a reflection of the first order, understanding of this judgment will correspond to the second order etc. There is a question: from how many «floors», following this logic, conditional scientific «building» constructed by researchers of vediysky literature consists? According to treatment of sociocultural functions of the philosophical knowledge, developed by V. S. Stepin in the early eighties the past century, the reflection role over universaliya of culture is carried out by philosophy, opening new, «addressed to the future» meanings of the called universaliya. It is possible to notice that, following methodological ways of a Newtonian-Cartesian paradigm, the oriyentalistsky science, as a rule, isn't beyond social perception in the relations with Bkhagavad-gita and acts in a role of «leaders of opinion», substituting Bkhagavad-gita's knowledge for own treatment of the ancient text. That is, as a result of action according to K ^ { P } ^ R (where K a communicator, R -the recipient and P the intermediary), adequate process of the report of information (Bkhagavad-gita's knowledge), or INFORMING, is substituted for INFLUENCE of interested persons on the Recipient.

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