Studia Paradyskie, 2021, t. 31

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Bytowa niewystarczalność jako egzystencjalne doświadczenie człowieka
Radkiewicz, Jan (Wydawnictwo Pallottinum, 2021)
Man as a personal entity is not a necessary being (like God), he is merely an accidental being. This accepted formula explains why man is an imperfect person. Death takes away from him the existential dimension; what is left is the spiritual dimension. The philosophical- theological language creates real elements of human existence. Fear, as a fundamental experience of human existential insufficiency, is a manifestation of his response to annxiety- generating stimul (wars, disastens, pandemics) which is he records in interior experience. Since he is a transcendental being, he is capable of registering in memory phisical and spiritual suffering which is not easily accepted. Whereas the hierarchy of values is an element of man,s intellectual and moral formation. Facing anxiety, man has to find an answer because his nature is holistic. Man is haunted by an irresistable pressure to improve the world. He feels self-sufficient, despite his dependency on others. However, the fear in the face of fate, void, lack of meaning, death, paralyses our vital dynamism and limits our freedom. Physical and spiritual sufferng brings man the imperfection and helplessness. Illness brings about a sense of loneliness. Death is an experience of man’s insufficiency.