Christian Person – Modern Industrial (Corporate) Society A Dialectical Contradiction

Abstract

In this paper it is shown that the positions of Christianity in the East concerning humanity are in radical disagreement with the modern phenomena of massification and financial competition, as they are presented and interpreted by the members of the School of Frankfurt and Marcuse in particular. Based on the aspect of person as a conscious formulation of the individual particularities and the social relations, we discuss common ways of approach to this anthropological topic, which relate to the two theoretical areas. Both are engaged in a critical attempt to show how human beings will not be imprisoned in the formalization of superficial situations and, also, how they will gain entrance to the depth of their existence. It is noteworthy that their representatives consider these move­ments as most important so that a human being can resist the powers, which aim at his manipulation and the annihilation of his consciousness. We also discuss some extensions of the above theories with reference to the construction of a democratic political system based on the value of freedom as an individual and collective achievement. Of course, we preserve the differences between the two theoretical fields, given that Christianity is by definition a theocentric system within the frame of which Church acts as the main area, where its principles are implemented and projected towards a social transformation.