JEAN LACROIX AND IMMANUEL KANT IN THE SEARCH OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF LABOR ACTIVITY AS A SOURCE OF PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT OF A HUMAN

Annotation

The article is devoted to the study of the philosophical foundations of labor activity as a source of personal development of a human in the personalism of Jean Lacroix and in the teachings of Immanuel Kant. The stated research goal of the publication is achieved by solving the following tasks: explaining the forced nature of labor and analyzing its religious and philosophical origins. The results of the study are subjected to a comparative analysis. As a result, the following conclusions are drawn. Both Lacroix and Kant believe that labor, even in the form of forced activity, can be understood as a way of creative self-realization of a human and his formation as a personality. Based on this, philosophers give a positive connotation to the religious and philosophical origins of labor, which are based on the theological concept of a “cultural mandate”. At the same time, the difference in views between Lacroix and Kant is on the issue of the source of the “cultural mandate”. For Lacroix, such a source is the Personality of God, and for Kant, impersonal Nature or Providence.

Keywords

I. Kant, J. Lacroix, E. Mounier, personality, personalism, social Christianity, cultural mandate, art, labor activity, society.

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