The rationality of the economic human behavior from the transdisciplinarity point of view

The problem of rationality is directly connected with the conditions of implementation of the model of a human being. The analysis of various approaches to rationality fulfilled in the article does not claim to be complete. The analysis is concise and may be fragmentary. Identification of trends of modern conceptions of rationality based on the evolutionary processes is the main aim. Discussions on the nature and content of "rationality" are impossible without elucidation of the historical reasons. Main approaches to rationality in various fields of traditional knowledge (philosophy, economics, sociology, etc.) and interdisciplinary courses (economic sociology, neo-institutional economics, economic psychology, etc.) are presented in the article. A study of the evolution of the conception of rationality in various fields of science allows revealing the forming tendencies of this issue further research. Identification of the bases of rationality polysemy leads to the understanding of the existence of different types of rationality. A sufficient variety of types of rationality can be found, for example, philosophical, social, humanitarian, political, economic, etc. Different and contradictory approaches to rationality are typical on the current stage of the rationality ideas development in the economy. It has been established that the development of the rational behaviors notions was caused by contradictions between the theoretical and real data, as well as by excessive abstractedness of the rational human beings model. The above factors allow identifying new approaches to the study of conceptions of the model of a human being and the peculiarities of their implementation in practice, understand the variety of forms of rationality, and obtain complete representation of the problem of rationality in historical, gnoseological, sociocultural, historical and scientific and other aspects. The changes of rationalities conceptions can be caused by the formation of the world. According to classical science nature was regarded as an object, but in postnonclassical world the nature acts as a subject, which also includes the cognoscitive man. Rationality should not be rejected for solving current problems of economy functioning, the rationality conceptions of various types and forms should be rethought. The fact that introduction of rationality in society, economy and nature is not unlimited should be considered. The analysis of approaches to rationality revealed the tendencies of modern conceptions of rationality based on evolutionary processes, the prospects of their convergence on interdisciplinary base. During conducting the research in the field of rationality, irrational and unpredictable elements should be taken into consideration. One of the possible approaches is the model of strategic objective (otherwise the model of rational concordance of interests).

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