The expression of human in two symbolic forms

The person entering dialogue is expressed symbolically for another in the image of one's own body. However, symbolic expression of the person in one's own body can be understood at various levels. It leads to occurrence of various forms of symbolic attitude. The symbolized can have the intelligible character. It is Plato's eidos, spiritual essence etc. The symbolized can be mental process, for example, formation of internal human life. In this connection it is possible to allocate two types of symbols: a symbol of the intelligible and a symbol of the psychohylectical. We will name the first the intelligible symbol, and the second - the psychohylectical symbol. There are two ways of embodiment of the person in symbolical life. In the intelligible symbol the person is present only in eidetic image, regardless of one's formation in empirical life. In the psychohylectical symbol the person is expressed in the internal formation. Sources of distinction of these two types of the symbol are in Ancient Greek philosophical tradition. The antique Plato's doctrine specified the eternal essence in the person, the eidos embodied in a substance. Stoicism revealed the person as an aspect of temporal formation of Logos. The body as a symbol from the point of view of Plato's doctrine shows intelligible essence, and from the point of view of stoicism -psychohylectical formation. Along with external expression the symbol displays internal measurement of formation of the person. The internal sphere of the person contains not only mental processes and experiences expressed in the psychohylectical symbol, but also possibilities not realised in the empirical validity. The sphere of these possibilities is the meonal aspect of the internal human life. The meonal is pure potentiality, absence of actual embodiment and at the same time its possibility. Symbols, which specify the empirically unexpressed, meonal layer of internal human life, are meonal symbols. The meonal symbol directs the knowledge energy of the person from an outwardly perceived image to the internal sphere of a human life, which does not reveal empirically. It does not express the content hidden internally in an empirical image, but communicates its presence through the feeling of emotional participation. At internal measurement of the symbol there can be a latent content of not only the meonal aspect of internal life, but also the super urgent one. The super urgency owing to its absolute superiority over the empirical reality cannot be expressed in sensual images or concepts.Symbols of a super urgent reality are apophatic and express participation of a human life in the divine and non-created origin. The apophatic symbol specifies the inexpressible super urgency of the higher life in a special way - through its own negation.

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