Etyka homo viator — zło a los człowieka

Abstrakt

The ethics of homo viator — evil and the man’s fate

The objective of the article is to show the immanent link between the ethical condition of homo viator — the man’s activity in the world of values, and hope. According to the author, hope appears when the subject may, in free acts, refer to the values that exist in the world and take responsibility for them. This is the ontic basis of homo viator and his ethical condition. Evil fate isolates the person from the world of values and from their own, individualised, personal subjectivity. As a result, the man rejects values or participates in them in an illusory manner. In both cases the person’s suffering becomes more intensive. At the same time, as a result of such attitudes, the man who experiences evil loses faith in the existence of objective values in the world because of the oppression. Negating the world with its limited axiological meaningfulness, the man loses the ontic source of hope. The lack of hope means evil which threatens the ethical condition of homo viator by destroying the axiological relation between the man and the world.