Vikulina V.V.
CATEGORICAL STATUS OF THE CONCEPT "ECONOMIC MAN" ^{[№ 7 ' 2009]}
The article considers philosophical basis for the concept "economic man". It was shown that, as initial category, this concept cannot be defined inside economic knowledge and needs in more general methodological foundation. The foundation for this concept is philosophical analysis of the concept "the man as such". "Economic man" is one of the ways to overcome anthropological borders of the existence as the ability to transform the world with accordance to interests and demands of the man himself. Categorical status, "economic man", economic substance, eccentric existence.