Залезът на фронезис
The Decline of Phronesis

Summary/Abstract: The subject/object constitution is considered as a universal form in which the human as a human nature stands in the world. ‘Subject’ means a man; ‘object’ means everything else. This radical opposition of the man to his surroundings is analysed as theoretically inscribed in two processes that are essentially inherent to the West-European cultural attitude: rationalization and individualization. It is claimed that the basis for the subject/object opposition comes as a result of the individual human nature historically ‘coming out’ of its natural ethical ethos. That ‘coming out’ is a process. It can be theoretically related to the gradual loss of the man’s natural abilities for normal practical reasoning (phronesis), which had been typical to the thought of Greek antiquity.

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