«Blind Spot» and the Phenomenon of Self-Givenness

Turchynovskyy, Volodymyr

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dc.contributor.author	Turchynovskyy, Volodymyr
dc.date.accessioned	2016-02-18T22:49:22Z
dc.date.available	2016-02-18T22:49:22Z
dc.date.issued	2010
dc.identifier.citation	Turchynovskyy V. «Blind Spot» and the Phenomenon of Self-Givenness / Volodymyr Turchynovskyy // Философско-культурологический журнал «Топос». – 2010. – № 2 (24). – С. 71-79.	uk
dc.identifier.isbn	1815-0047
dc.identifier.uri	http://er.ucu.edu.ua/handle/1/646
dc.language.iso	en	uk
dc.publisher		uk
dc.subject	gift	uk
dc.subject	subjectivity	uk
dc.subject	self-givenness	uk
dc.subject	Christian anthropology	uk
dc.subject	Thomas Nagel	uk
dc.subject	humanities	uk
dc.title	«Blind Spot» and the Phenomenon of Self-Givenness	uk
dc.type	Article	uk
dc.status	Опублікований і розповсюджений раніше	uk
dc.description.abstracten	One of the fundamental intuitions that plays the central role in the theological and philosophical reflections of John Paul II consists in the recognition of the gift character of person’s existence. Not only the world is given and entrusted to a person but also a person himself/herslef «who is the only creature on earth which God willed for itself» (Gaudium et Spes, 24) is given to himself/herself as a gift. John Paul II explicitly writes in the Centesimus Annus: «Not only has God given the earth to man, who must use it with respect to the original good purpose for which it was given to him, but man too is God’s gift to man» (Centesimus Annus, 38). Whether and how the gift dimension of one’s own existence may be discovered by a person is an important philosophical question. To answer it one would have to investigate the phenomenon of person’s receptivity as well as to explore the ways in which the reality including the reality of one’s own being resents or gives itself to the person. In this essay I will critically examine some claims made by Thomas Nagel in his The View From Nowherewhich if proven to be irrefutable will make it impossible for a person to ever perceive and realize one’s own being as a gift given to him/her. In presenting Nagel’s views I will indicate certain fundamental weaknesses in his position as well as outline the direction in which the subjectivity and self-givenness of man may reveal their true essence.	uk
dc.relation.source	Философско-культурологический журнал «Топос». – 2010. – № 2 (24).	uk