PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE OF ENTERING CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE CREATION OF CONSTRUCTS OF SOCIAL EXISTENCE

Abstract

The relevance of the problem of "incoming consciousness" has necessitated a renewed exploration of action as responsibility—to oneself, to others, and to the world. In a previous work, the author drew on historical and philosophical material from the ancient Greek era to trace the development of Western man as a moral being in his value-based attitudes toward action. While in antiquity and the Middle Ages, responsibility generally concerned a person's obligation to behave appropriately before God, one's family, or one's community, in modern times, responsibility has become the necessity of having one's own answer when solving life's most complex problems. This peculiarity is primarily due to the fact that in the past, an "answer" existed, but its authorship was of an inhuman, superhuman nature, so a person could either follow the prescribed path or not. In modern times, however, a situation arises where ready-made solutions (answers) are not available; they must be found, and found independently and individually.