Man as a creature establishing the boundaries

Author(s):  T.Y. Denisova, Surgut State University, Surgut, Russia, denisovasever86@bk.ru

Issue:  Volume 43, № 3

Rubric:  Thesis

Annotation:  The problem of achieving self-identity in the process of existence returns us to the well-known Sartre question of the relationship between the primacy of essence and existence in the being of a thing and a person. An important feature of existence is that this being is not within its predetermined, ready-made individual form, its monadic shell, but always outward, an attempt to exist outside of itself. The focus of the following essay is a phenomenon of boundary considering within the perspectives of philosophical anthropology in correlation with the problem of human essence. The aim of this article is to offer a model of explanation of the human’s solution of the important tasks of achievement the self-knowledge and the unity with himself. It is shown, that they can be solved in the process of establishment of present borders and limits of possible future. The establishment of boundaries and their destruction or displacement are free creative acts of any person in the effort to reach the unity with him. Thus, existence is always connected with transcendental acts, with the process of establishment and deconstruction of the borders

Keywords:  border, substance, transcendence, human, existence, entelecheia

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