The "Mask" as an Epistemological Phenomen

Student: Vinkelman Anna

Educational Programme: Philosophy (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2017

The present work “The "Mask" as an Epistemological Phenomen” is concerned to the problem of a subject. It is the main problem for the Western Philosophy. In the work, we have made the reconstruction of the subject problem from the perspective of the history of philosophy and pointed out the key difficulties. The author of the work provides her original solution to the problem. This solution is – the concept of the “Mask”. The idea is based on the transcendental philosophy of I. Kant, F.W.J. Schelling, and L. Wittgenstein.

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