Activity as an Anthropological Category : On Distinguishing Between the Ontological and the Epistemological Status of Activity

This article is devoted to categorial and logical-semantic analysis of the concept "activity" in philosophy, methodology, and psychology. The basic activity-related subcategories are systematized and the normative structure of activity is revealed. The set of problems pertaining to the ontogenesis of activity-related abilities and to professional formation is defined in terms of the process of establishment of the subject of his own activity.