Thinking and Being

Abstract

In the article the idea about essence of thinking as reflection of the social being, following from K. Marx’s materialistic understanding of history is critically analyzed. The main thought of the author of article is that at all importance and inherence of reflective function it doesn't make essence of thinking. Essence of thinking is the creativity consisting in development of new ideas, concepts, values, requirements and the purposes which contents makes images of what isn't present actually and which have to be carried out and turned into reality, i.e. into being. Human social being in this sense is derivative of human thinking and only then in a new cycle of activity of people can become objects of reflection.