Human Existence in the Gallery of Converted and Alienated Forms

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of human existence in the aspect of its converted and alienated forms. Both of them are different from the original form, which is present actually or potentially. The converted form is not completely overcome, but exists only as an overcoming one. By ceasing to be denied by a man, it becomes the alienated form. The converted form belittles the authenticity, but does not obscure it entirely. The alienated form, on the contrary, is able to obscure, neutralize the authenticity. The true human existence is manifested as a non-impassive life together, at least of two people with each other. Sociality is a converted form of life together, excessively rationalized and mechanized. Recognized as a substance of reasonable egoism, it is permeated by the capitalist spirit, which is not eliminated by socialist practice. Rationalistic and mechanistic reductionism is immanently inherent in sociality. Determined by it, it evolves towards alienated forms of life, turns into excessive sociality. The latter is not assimilated by the human individual: it corrodes his nature and existence, subordinates his sociality to economic and technical structures. In conjunction with sociality and its internal logic, the author critically assesses the progressist worldview. Progress is a converted form of development, which tends to alienate and destroy even faster than sociality. The modern world is in a state of innovative decadence. It is no longer just a parasitism on the future, characteristic of classical progressist theories and practices; it is a transfer into the present of the exhausted exploitation of the future. Humankind experiences this state in a strange form of sublime fall. To discuss the stated subject, the author draws on philosophical and literary material and meaningful life empiricism. The pathos of the article is in a realistic and responsible recognition of the continuity of being and in the feasible resistance to its inauthentic forms.