The Surging of the Creative Orchestration within Man’s Self-Interpretation-In-Existence: Passivity vs. Activity

Abstract

The specifically human meaningfulness of life, which I propose to present here in its full extent brings a crucial new note to classical attempts to delineate the distinctiveness of the particular type of beingness which we call the “human being.” Indeed, we avoid isolating the concept of the human being in its particular type of structure, form, or “nature,” etc., for each such isolation assumes at the start a bias as to how the human being will be grasped as “human.” Instead of seeking what makes him different, distinctive or specifically “human,” this is already assumed. That is we forego metaphysico-ontological as well as anthropological approaches. Any such possible preconception is avoided by approaching the human being in his evolving genesis within the constructive meaning-projecting progress of life. Instead of setting him apart from the originary stream of life from which he emerges as a type of beingness and which provides the means by which he carries on his own progress within the stream, it is proposed at the outset of our inquiry that is is precisely the evolutive genesis of this type of being-in-progress that is the key to unlocking and exfoliating the nature of this type of beingness so that we may situate it in its proper place, role, and function in the entire scheme of life. (Cf. the Spanish existentialists.) It is the meaning-bestowing function of this constructive progress in the living being whom we call “man” or “woman” which is the vehicle of beingness.