The subject and its relation to being in traditional Tuvan culture
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: The study aims to identify the key features of the subjectivity of being in traditional Tuvan culture by defining the essence of the subject and the fundamental traits of its worldview. The article highlights the valuable characteristics of subjectivity within culture that ensure its adaptive and creative potential. Ontological, epistemological, anthropological, existential, and axiological aspects of the Tuvans’ understanding of existence are established. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the philosophical reconstruction of the worldview of traditional Tuvan culture and in identifying the features of the collective subject within Tuvan culture. The research establishes that subjectivity was grounded in the influence of nature on the Tuvan worldview and in syncretism; the polysemy of cultural images shaped a diversity of interpretive methods; the content of the image of being was defined by locality, while being itself was conceptualized as living and animate. The syncretism of this worldview negated the need for developing metaphysical and transcendental concepts, resulting in the absence of a subject-object or human-nature dichotomy. Subjectivity was informed not by ideas of an atomized individual, but by the indivisibility of human beings and natural processes. Subjecthood is revealed not only in the individual and the community, but also in natural phenomena. Tradition, as a method of cultural development, serves as the foundation for shaping this unique worldview. Finally, contextuality not only determined modes of thinking but also directly influenced the mode of existence of subjectivity itself.
Source: Manuscript
DOI: 10.30853/mns20260240
Institutions: Krasnoyarsk State Medical University, Tuvan State University
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7214948859