FEATURES OF THE FORMATION AND BECOMING OF PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPTS IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE AS A REFLECTION OF CARDINAL CHANGES IN SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Аннотация

This article is aimed at a historical and linguistic analysis of the formation of English philosophical terms. The process of the formation of the English nation, which was intensively continuing during the analyzed period, proceeded in parallel with the spread of both oral and written national English. During the analyzed period, the vocabulary of the English language includes a significant number of new words; at the same time, both the process of borrowing words from ancient and modern languages and the entire system of word production are activated. The article also makes an attempt at the author's interpretation of the problem of the peculiarities of the formation and development of the English philosophy of the Renaissance (XYI-XYII centuries) in the aspect of the categorical-conceptual language from the point of view of philosophy. KEYWORDS: - Vocabulary, concept, philosophical category, philosophical theoretical knowledge, Renaissance, latinisms, national English language, English philosophy, sublanguage of philosophy, thematic groups. borrowing words from ancient and modern I NTRODUCTION languages and the entire system of word production are activated. The process of the formation of the English nation, which was intensively continuing during The originality of the era and the state of the the period under review, proceeded in parallel language are clearly visible in a detailed analysis with the spread of both oral and written national of the thematically organized vocabulary of a English. This factor external to the language philosophical nature. We add that the concepts, system had a great influence on the development and, therefore, the words that expressed them, of the literary English language. The expansion of were formed in complex relationships with the functions of the English national literary religion, the influence of which was great; language during the formation and stabilization practice itself (major geographical discoveries, of the nation could not be realized without a scientific and technical progress, expanding the significant replenishment of its vocabulary base. scope of the orbis terranum) caused the need to During the analyzed period, the vocabulary of the subordinate philosophical thought to practice, English language includes a significant number of therefore, whole groupings of words are born in new words; at the same time, both the process of accordance with established social practice and CURRENT RESEARCH JOURNAL OF PEDAGOGICSISSN 171 – 2767-3278 https://masterjournals.com/index.php/crjp CURRENT RESEARCH JOURNAL OF PEDAGOGICS 2(12): 171-178, December 2021 DOI: https://doi.org/10.37547/pedagogics-crjp-02-12-34 ISSN 2767-3278 ©2021 Master Journals Accepted 26thDecember, 2021 & Published 31thDecember, 2021 the approval of thematic series of categories made up of primordial Russian names. The reflecting the objective world. quantitatively prevailing lexical units of Romance origin fulfill a social order of great importance in All innovations of the research period are the English: they designate precisely the main most important terms of philosophy, among philosophical categories (being, movement, which one should, for example, highlight the individual and general, space and time, unity and designation of the most important philosophical opposites, materiality). category - "concept". The emergence of this category in the era of the late Renaissance is not Thus, during the period under study, the number accidental, since its appearance reflects the and content of the main scientific categories highest degree of development of philosophical increases and the content of these categories is thought and testifies to its ability to abstract. increasingly approaching a complete and Intensive and purposeful enrichment of the comprehensive reflection of the objective world. conceptual apparatus of philosophy (this The basis for studying the philosophical especially applies to such concepts as "method", vocabulary of the English language, as indicated "categories of cognition", "space and time", above, is precisely the content side of each word. "interconnection and opposition") suggests the It follows from what has been said that the intensive development of philosophical trends in structural and functional analysis of the layered the further development of these categories. The composition of philosophical texts is aimed at reason for this, in our opinion, was the outlined determining those implicit connections that peculiar turn towards epistemology as opposed appear between different parts of speech within to the metaphysical-ontological scholasticism of this vocabulary. the Middle Ages, a turn that constituted one of When considering issues related to trends in the the central points of philosophical thought of the development and replenishment of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. vocabulary of a language, one must always The world outlook struggle also determined the re