The Third Path: Between Instinct and Consciousness


	Culture and Art Reference: Spektor, D. M. The Third Path: Between Instinct and Consciousness // Culture and Art. 2015. № 1. P. 50-59. URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=65880 Spektor, D. M. The Third Path: Between Instinct and Consciousness Abstract: Despite the fact that there is a great variety of anthropological concepts and schools, anthropology is guided by the paradigm of human reason. It is the awakening mind tentatively learning the world and producing a bunch of strange and exotic practices the ancestors of human paid much attention to. The dichotomy ‘instinct or reason’ confine most of anthropological researches. The present article is aimed at undermining the authority of this dichotomy and carrying out a research of something the third, something between instinct and reason – a strange instinct excluding reflective performance algorithms. The author solves the Gordian knot by reconstructing and comparing a number of factors which create a rather limited picture of the alternative logic and the meaning of human evolution. As a result, a new vision of the outcome of history has been created. This is the vision of the history developing within the framework of species competition and driven by the initiation of the defensive instinct when an individual stands above the irresistible circumstances of isolation and his dedication is approved in the cult as the historically the first instrument of retaining humanity. Keywords: Instinct, consciousness, spontaneity, ritual, genotype, phenotype, evolution, archanthrope, competition, sacrifice. This article can be downloaded freely in PDF format for reading. Download article References 1. Agamben Dzh. Homo sacer. Suverennaya vlast' i golaya zhizn'. – M.: Izdatel'stvo «Evropa», 2011.-256 s. 2. Anikovich M. V., Anisyutkin N. K., Vishnyatskii L. B. Uzlovye problemy perekhoda k verkhnemu paleolitu v Evrazii. – SPb., 2007. 3. Antropologicheskie matritsy KhKh veka. L.S. Vygotskii – P.A. Florenskii. Nesostoyavshiisya dialog. – M.: Progress-Traditsiya, 2007. 4. Borodai Yu. M. Ot fantazii k real'nosti. – M.; 1995. 5. Godel'e M. Zagadka dara. – M.; 2007. 6. Golovnev A. V. Antropologiya dvizheniya (drevnosti severnoi Evrazii). – Ekaterinburg.; 2009. 7. Kassirer E. Filosofiya simvolicheskikh form. T.2. Mifologicheskoe myshlenie. – M.; 2001. 8. Lorents K. Oborotnaya storona zerkala. – M.; 1988. 9. Markov A. Evolyutsiya cheloveka. Kn. 1. Obez'yany, kosti i geny. – M., 2011. 10. Moos M. Sotsial'nye funktsii svyashchennogo. – Sankt-Peterburg, 2000. 11. Nazaretyan A. P.. «Tsivilizatsionnye krizisy v kontekste universal'noi istorii».– M., 2004. 12. Pershits A. I. Problemy normativnoi etnografii // Issledovaniya po obshchei etnografii. M., 1979. 13. Reznikova Zh. I. Kognitivnoe povedenie zhivotnykh, ego adaptatsionnaya funktsiya i zakonomernosti formirovaniya. – // Vestnik NGU. Seriya: Psikhologiya. T.3.• Vyp. 2. 2009. 14. Rouz F. Aborigeny Avstralii. Traditsionnoe obshchestvo. – M.; 1989. 15. Saringulyan K. S. O regulyativnykh aspektakh kul'turnoi traditsii // SE. 1981. № 2. 16. Semenov Yu. I. Kak vozniklo chelovechestvo. – Moskva, 1966. 17. Tokarev S. A. Rannie formy religii. – M., 1990. 18. Toporov V.N. O rituale. Vvedenie v problematiku. M., 1988. S.24. 19. Tsiv'yan T. V. K semantike prostranstvennykh i vremennykh pokazatelei v fol'klore //Sb. statei po vtorichnym modeliruyushchim sistemam. – Tartu.; 1973. 20. Eliade M. Ocherki sravnitel'nogo religiovedeniya. – M.; 1999. 21. Yaspers K. Obshchaya psikhopatologiya. M.: Praktika, 1997. – 1053 c. 22. Blaisdell A . R., Sawa K., Leising K. J . , Waldmann M. R . Causal Reasoning in Rats // Science. V. 311. 2006. 23. Firth R. Essays on social organization and values. London, 1964. 24. Franz M. Evolution. Die Entwicklung des Lebens. – München., 2002. 25. Moscovici S. La societe contre nature; UGE 10/18, Paris., 1972. 26. Reimann R. Der Schamane sieht eine Hexe – der Ethnologe sieht nichts. Frankfurt/ Main., 1998. 27. Weidkuhn P. Aggressivität und Normativitat//Anthropos. 1968—1969. Vol. 63/64. 28. Wulf C. Anthropologie. Geschichte. Kultur. Philosophie. – Hamburg., 2004.

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