Reznik Yu.M. The World as the Projection of Human Being

Abstract: In his article Reznik investigates the possibilities of human to design the world and build a world-project. Subjectivist philosophers put human being in the center of the world view and stress out the dominant position of human in the world. However, such an interpretation has not always been normative. There is also an objectivist view on the human-world interaction. Within the existentialist tradition the world 'unfolds' from human being and is understood as a projection of his/her being. Yet the author underlines that we should not interpret this idea literally. It is the human himself/herself that gives birth to the world. Without the active role of the human the world becomes estranged and feels like an imposed form of existence which restricts human creative abilities. Martin Heidegger insists on the human being's pertaining to the world. This means that human longs to feel at home everywhere in the world, to fulfill his/her own opportunity and to become the 'being' himself/herself . The human being is the one who transfers his/her being-in–the-world into a project and vests it with existential features.  The research method used by the author is based on the ontological premises of existentialism. The human and the world are analyzed by the author as a project of co-being, in which the contours of their future unification are traced. The human being is not opposed to the world and not regarded as its separate part. He/she has a capacity of world-creation and hence, can act as a being proportionate to the world. In everyday life he/she is what he/she is occupied with. Yet the human being develops his/her identity as a result of his/her unity with the world. The main result of the research is an ontological synthesis to which the author comes through the analysis of the interactions between the human being and the world. The author regards the world in two aspects: as a “what-ness” of human being and as an accentuation of his/her ”who-ness”. In the first case the world acts as a form of human existence and a way of reaching a transcendental state. It is consequentially cognized as a multiple being or a universe of being (ontical dimension) and as a universal in being (ontological dimension). At the same time there are the spatial and pragmatic dimensions of being-in-the-world: the human being does not only exost in the being-here-and-now, but can also treat the world as a useful material. In the second case it is the who-ness of being that comes forward and defines the subjective capabilities of the human being to rebuild the world for himself/herself, making his/her presence in the world fundamental. It is always his/her own liberated being, the' being-for-oneself'.The author comes to the conclusion that in order to define one’s model of interaction with the world it is necessary to build a project of coexistence with this world and thus broaden one’s creative capacities.

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