The author considers signature features of mythological world view, traces its connection to scientific world view and studies differential characteristics based upon which it is possible to judge about mythological world view being presented as basic and manifesting itself beyond conscious thinking. Using dialectics the author did unveil the way of such philosophical categories as faith / knowledge, subject / object, idealism / materialism, soul / body, infinity / finiteness, absolute / relative, eternity / time, whole / part, and one / several, realization in mythological world view. Summing up the results of philosophical research the author has formulated principal conclusion about subject describing world view being affected by his or her own world view that governs him or her as object.

Keywords: mythological world view; scientific world view; philosophical category; knower; dialectics.

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https://doi.org/10.24151/2409-1073-2017-2-42-48