摘要：The present paper deals with the methodological problems of legitimation of social structures and social phenomena by concrete mythologies, by religion and philosophical theories. Theoretical analysis of phenomena of legitimation of scarcity is based on the variety of the philosophical works from ancient philosophy such as stoicism, Epicureanism, through classical concepts of J. S. Mill and J. Locke up to the concepts of liberalism and Marxism. The process of legitimation is analyzed as a whole set of very effective methods of explaining and justifying objective social structures. The principle of meta-cognition, of thinking about thinking is the basic method to explain how the objecivated social world is introduced into the consciousness. This research is based on the concrete phenomenon of legitimation of scarcity. The problem is how to explain the process of internalization of objective reality by transforming it into subjective reality. Keywords : legitimation, theory, scarcity, reflection, meta-cognition. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15823/zz.2015.28
