Philosophical views on the significance of belonging and identity

Abstract

    The issue of belonging and identity is characterized by the holistic nature

of its close connection with human existence, as this topic is the essence       

of societies' responses to the challenges they have faced throughout their history  in all areas of life, social, psychological, cultural, intellectual, material, biological, political and economic.  

    The different visions in this regard are due to the overlapping of connotations and the interrelationship of human fields with each other on the one hand, and the different social formations and historical and cultural paths that make up each society and their impact on shaping it in a way that distinguishes it from other societies on the other hand. Therefore, questions were raised that included the concept of belonging and identity, what is the linguistic significance?, Are there intrinsically different connotations of affiliation and identity? Is affiliation and loyalty one concept? Or is one absorbed by the other? What is the nature of the link between affiliation and identity? Can this connection be formulated in light of the constants of logical relations? Are the sources of affiliation and identity considered acquired or natural genetics?                                                                       

   These questions can be answered by presenting and analyzing philosophical visions of what affiliation and identity are in the light of the following elements: the concept of affiliation and loyalty, linguistic significance, socio-psychological concept, spatial significance, abstract perspective, identity content and its social, psychological and cultural significance, the link of affiliation to identity, and the sources of formation of each Both of them, and the dialectic of the acquisition and instinctive environment, using a historical-critical analytical method.