to be responsible (Life as given)
Annotation
The article considers answerabilty as a fundamental characteristic of human being.
Answerabilty as an ability to deal with the givens of being is related with the timing ability
and grounds in the fact, that the man as a subject is derivative from the initial subject (the
Other). The ability of timing the life is a basis to the human ability of being a coauthor of the
chronodesign of his life. The author analyses the basis of the abilities of reactive and proactive
activities. The perception of life as a whole turns it into a task, a target a long time before its
end. Accomplishing of this task implies setting a supra- situative goals, and the pursuing of them
activates the long will. The humanistic attitude of the modern era builds the world outlook
on the basis of the autonomous self-sufficient subject, while the traditional world outlook
grounds into the answerabilty and the primacy of the initial subject. In the humanistic era
the creative act of producing the New displaces the former attitude of perceiving, imitating
and cultivating the given.
Keywords
Life, time, eternity, man, subject, initial subject, givens, answerability,
responsibility.
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