Prokhorov, M. M. The Phenomenon of Economism

Abstract: The author of the article describes the terms «economics’ and «economism» as opposed conceptions. He describes the relation between economism and mechanical philosophy and analyzes the existence of human and society, the role of economics and the origin of the phenomenon of economism. The article also deals with economics, its purpose and mode of existence. According to the author, the phenomenon of economism is opposed to the term «economics». The author demonstrates the inadequacy of mechanical philosophy and economism in philosophical ontology (dialectics of existence) and dynamics of science (existence of classical, non-classical and post-classical science). He shows that economism estranges human from the social reality just like mechanical philosophy estranges human from the material reality. The main method used by the author of the article is dialectics including the following combination of methods: method of objectivity, method of contradictions between positive and negative dialectics and between the historical and the logical, the method of ascension from abstract to concrete and the comparative method of research. The author of the article analyzes the philosophical grounds of economics and defines the phenomenon of economism as well as describes the influence of economism on economis, society and social spheres. The article contains a comparative analysis of economism and mechanical philosophy and their inadequacy in terms of existence, its development and philosophical picture of the world in general. Mechanical philosophy replaces philosophical ontology with natural science concepts (like in positivism) and economism replaces social ontology with the concepts described in the humanities.

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