Abstract

According to the author, the category of world outlook is the last bastion of classic rationality. In contrast to the reductionist outlook which considers the spiritual life of an individuum as a hierarchically built system of principles, norms and rules, the author regards the category of life world as the most adequate tool for the exploration of individual consciousness. The author argues against, the well established in phenomenological issues, identification of concepts of “everyday life” and “life word”. Life world is a contradictory formation which includes the dispositions of everyday life, the “instantaneous” myth as a specific life experience and the elements of “cultural cosmos”. Everyday life is intentional and intersubjective, while instantaneous mythology is usually authorized and non-intentional. The problems related to the introduction of the category of life world into philosophical use is due to the confusion of the exploration of “life from outside” as formulation of social and cultural approach and the exploration of “life from inside” as phenomenology of the individual consciousness conditions.