Vital human life values: subject, transformer and creator of value potential

Authors

  • Oleksandra Lysenko

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15330/esu.13.146-153

Keywords:

axiology, values, personalism, indulgence

Abstract

The article states that the fundamental issues of existential problems include the question: who is a person? What motive force in her life is decisive? What is the meaning of human life? The answers to these and other questions are very different.
The author argues that the notion of values is present in everyday life, therefore the problem of values is engaged in psychological sciences and pedagogy.
Values are also explored by sociology, which analyzes social values and behavior associated with them.
Man is realized and formed through values, so we can talk about axiotropism, present in human nature. Positive values form a person, its antivalues destroy it. The world of a person deprived of values would be axiologically neutral and existentially empty.
The philosophy of values is essential for personalistic pedagogy.
Man, thanks to his sensual qualities, intellect and will, is at the same time an object and subject of his own reflection.
Bearing in mind the phenomenon of culture, which is a set of outlined values, we can distinguish universal and locally-ethnic values. Each culture gives preference to a certain type and axiological model, therefore, another Christian culture, another Muslim or Jewish.
Ukrainian culture combines as a set of universal qualities - due to the Christian pedigree, and specifically Slavic values.
Man by nature is a dynamic, developing being. It does not satisfy the present state, it plans and strives for the future. The dynamic theological profile finds its confirmation also in the world of values. Some values are revealed in the world around the world, while others are only declared and partially realized. Man is called to create things and values, as well as to form oneself.
The basis of the greet-sensual values is the body, which is an integral element of the individual.
Holistic understanding of man requires the recognition of both his bodily beginning, and mental and sensory life, associated with the personal "I" spiritual nature. An integral element of human nature is its emotional sphere, in which we distinguish three levels: somatic-organic feelings, sensational-inducing, mental and spiritual feelings.
Since happiness is a specific human feature, its research is present in scientific disciplines that are developing within an anthropological paradigm: philosophy, psychology, sociology, and, of course, pedagogy.

Published

2018-09-28

Issue

Section

THE THEORY OF UPBRINGING