ISSN 2078-9823 (Print), ISSN 2587-7879 (Online)

DOI: 10.15507/2078-9823.062.023.202302.184-194

Nikolay S. Savkin

National Research Ogarev Mordovia State University (Saransk, Russia),

e-mail: doctorsavkin@yandex.ru

 

Social Being of Human and Phenomenology of Death

 

Abstract

Introduction. Phenomenology is concerned with the systematic reflection and study of the structures of consciousness and the phenomena that manifest themselves in acts of consciousness. It does not consider the world as objects interacting with each other. Therefore, many philosophers believe that phenomenology is not a philosophical school or doctrine, but rather a style of thinking, a kind of philosophical method. The phenomenology of death does not provide concrete research results; it understands it both as a creative force and as an absurd phenomenon. The key essence of death Sartre calls the absurdity, its meaninglessness, contrary to common sense.

Materials and Methods. In the course of the study, methods of a predominantly theoretical and methodological nature were used: integrative, causal-genetic, the implementation of which, in conjunction with a synergistic technique, gives certain results. The empirical basis of the study was the results of the experiments of the oncologist Jeffrey Long, presented in the book “Proof of Life After Death”, Raymond Moody “Life after Life”.

Discussion and Conclusion. Particularly significant in European existentialism and humanism are analyzes of the social functions of death: the equalizer of social statuses, the function of not ending life, but completion, the creative function of death lies in a person’s awareness of the essence of true existence, death, according to Schopenhauer, is the inspirer, or muzaget of philosophy. Death is an objective reality, it is destructive, puts an end to all plans, prospects. But there is also the subjective side of death – thoughts and reflections about it. They are sometimes dangerous, harmful. But on the other hand, they help to see the important, eventful, to get rid of the petty, accidental, to overcome envy, that is, they make certain adjustments to behavior, regulate it in a certain way.

Keywords: phenomenology, thanatology, borderline state, clinical death, biological death, soul immortality, reincarnation, noosphere, creationism, existentialism.

For citation: Savkin N. S. Social Being of Human and Phenomenology of Death. Gumanitarian: aktual’nye problemy gumanitarnoi nauki i obrazovaniia = Russian Journal of the Humanities. 2023; 23(2): 184–194. (In Russ.). DOI: 10.15507/2078-9823.062.023.202302.184-194.

 

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