Dynamic understanding of symbol in energetic dialectics

For the history of philosophy there is an urgent question on possibility to describe formation by means of words with the fixed meanings. These meanings correspond with the facts and laws, not with the formation process. To express formation by language means it is necessary to understand language as the becoming validity. W. Humboldt offered such understanding of language in his energetic concept of language. For formation expression it is also necessary to mention the dynamism of the meanings expressed in words. The formation reception and description become possible according to the energetic understanding of meaning. The possibility to learn and describe formation consists in a symbolical layer of human consciousness, which creates special tools - symbols - for this purpose. The substantiation of expression of human personality in different symbolical forms at various ontological levels assumes the ontological approach to symbol philosophy. The ontological correlation of essence of the symbolized and its expression in human life becomes the subject of philosophical research. It demands an energetic research paradigm where the essence is interpreted in correlation with its outside expressions. The common basis of the possible approaches within energetic paradigms is made by the essence and energy dialectics. According to this dialectics the essence is understood as the intellectually comprehended objective content of a thing, event or a phenomenon, which unites various qualities in the independent whole and has a potential of new displays and qualities - energies. Energy is any action of essence outside. In energetic dialectics a symbol is interpreted as an independent one in relation to the symbolized content and to the image-symbolizing phenomenon. It distinguishes a symbol from a usual sign. The sign can be defined through the relation of the designating to the designated. The symbol includes this relation, but it is not reduced to it. Signs allow describing a certain, static part of the reality. Symbols allow expressing the reality in formation, dynamism. It is reached due to a new ontological moment, which lacks in a conventional sign. As a result of this ontological moment there is a symbol as an independent essence. The essence of a symbol comprises an infinite semantic potentiality. This potentiality dynamically reveals in the course of finding new semantic moments. This dynamic aspect of semantic self-disclosing of a symbol can be correlated with reality formation. Therefore there is a possibility of symbolical expression of the process of formation

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