Man’s Attitude to Things: Objective Being

• Main Authors: Lubov E. Motorina, Veronica M. Sytnik
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Christian Academic Circle 2019-01-01
• Series: Nova Prisutnost
• Subjects: a human being; attitude to things; existential space; instrumental space; cyberspace; man frontiers
• Online Access: https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/318491

The issues addressed in the article are of particular relevance due to the deepening anthropological crisis in the current geopolitical situation. The aim of the article is to introduce a category of ‘objective being’ into the language of science. The used research methods: philosophical reflection, comparative analysis and logical-historical integration. The main theoretical and methodological framework for the study is the approach to understanding a human being through the system of fundamental human attitudes to the world such as human attitude to things (objective being), human attitude to other people (social being) and human attitude to the Absolute (eternal universal being). The study is dedicated to the analysis of the human objective being and identification of its development stages: the stage of immediate relationship with things; the stage of ‘mediated relationship’ when technology becomes a mediating tool; and the stage of ‘double mediation’, when technology as a tool becomes a necessary precondition for the emergence of another mediating tool – cyberspace, potentially containing ‘curled up’ virtual realities. Such approach allows identifying the contradictions between the existential, instrumental and cybernetic spaces, arising in the process of the objective being development. Introduction of the category of ‘objective being’ as a type of fundamental human relationship to the world into the language of science expands the methodological background for the research into the vital anthropological issues of our time.