| 7 | INTRODUCTION |
| PART ONE. | |
| THE IDEAL AS SUBJECTIVE REALITY | |
| Chapter 1. • General Characteristics of the Problem of the Ideal | |
| 12 | 1. The Category of the Ideal in the System of Philosophical Knowledge |
| 17 | 2. The Material and the Ideal. The Initial Definition of the Category of the Ideal |
| 23 | 3. Natural-Scientific Aspects of the Problem of the Ideal. Types of Subjective Reality |
| 33 | 4. Disputes over the Problem of the Ideal in Marxist Literature |
| Chapter 2. • The Structure of Subjective Reality | |
| 56 | 1. Subjective Reality as an Integral Multidimensional Dynamic Bipolar and Self-Organising Structure. The Unity of the “Self” and “Other” Modalities |
| 64 | 2. The Unity of the Reflexive and the Nonreflexive, the Actual and the Dispositional in the Structure of Subjective Reality. Attitude of the Self to Its Own Ego |
| 78 | 3. Analytical Structure Parameters of Subjective Reality |
| Chapter 3. • The Psychic, the Logical and the Ideal | |
| 88 | 1. Reflection, the Psychic, Consciousness and the Ideal |
| 94 | 2. The Psychic, the Logical, the Ideal. Untenability of Radical Antipsychologism |
| 101 | 3. The Ideal as the Unity of Epistemological and Ontological Aspects |
| PART TWO. | |
| THE IDEAL AND THE MIND-BRAIN PROBLEM. CRITIQUE OF "SCIENTIFIC MATERIALISM" AND SUBSTANTIATION OF AN ALTERNATIVE CONCEPTION | |
| Chapter 4. • "Scientific Materialism" and the Mind-Brain Problem: A New Attempt at Discarding the Category of the Ideal | |
| 109 | 1. The Main Features of "Scientific Materialism" |
| 119 | 2. Varieties of "Scientific Materialism" |
| 127 | 3. Critique of "Scientific Materialism" in Contemporary Western Philosophy |
| Chapter 5. • Untenability of Physicalist Approach to the Mind-Brain Problem | |
| 139 | 1. Physicalist Paradigm and Its Reductionist Programme. Physical Reality and Objective Reality |
| 148 | 2. Methodological Impasse of the Paradigm of Physicalism |
| 154 | 3. "Functional Materialism" and Use of General Scientific Notions in the Investigation of the Mind-Brain Problem. Conception of "Emergentist Materialism" |
| Chapter 6. • Informational Approach to the Mind-Brain Problem As an Alternative to "Scientific Materialism" | |
| 166 | 1. The Ideal and Information |
| 173 | 2. The Category of the Ideal and the Informational Approach to the Mind-Brain Problem |
| 193 | 3. Decoding as a Special Cognitive Task in the Study of Living Nature, the Psyche and Culture |
| PART THREE. | |
| THE SOCIO-CULTURAL ASPECT OF THE PROBLEM OF THE IDEAL | |
| Chapter 7. • The Category of the Ideal and the Problem of Social Consciousness | |
| 208 | 1. Theoretical Difficulties in Defining Social Consciousness through the Category of the Ideal |
| 213 | 2. Interrelation Between Individual and Social Consciousness. Individual Consciousness as a Source of New Formations in the Sphere of Social Consciousness |
| 229 | 3. In What Sense Is Social Consciousness Ideal? |
| 235 | 4. The Ideal, an Idea, Idealisation, an Ideal |
| Chapter 8. • Social Dialectic of the Ideal and the Material | |
| 253 | 1. Subjective Reality and Speech |
| 264 | 2. Interrelation of Material and Spiritual Activity. Activity and Communication |
| 269 | 3. The Ideal as an Expression of Man’s Capacity for Action. Objectification-Deobjectification Processes and the Structure of the Action Capacity |
| 277 | 4. The Category of the Ideal and the "Personal Aspect" of Social Consciousness and Social Activity |
| 287 | NAME INDEX |
| 292 | SUBJECT INDEX |
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