E. FINKO FILOSOFINĖ ANTROPOLOGIJA
PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF E. FINK

Summary/Abstract: Cultural and historical variability is completely overwhelming and within its context it is almost impossible to decipher something “essential”, some “invariant variable” which would comprise a clue to what the human is, – this idea is presented as the main presupposition of Eugen Fink’s philosophical anthropology. A major direction of Fink’s works is a fundamental critique of traditional ontology and a search for a worldly thinking that would be more appropriate or implicit in human “worldly” existence. While following Husserl’s transcendental philosophy, Fink opened up a new philosophical domain that is implicit in transcendental mode of awareness. His effort consisted in “revealing” what is already amidst us, what we have silently guessed and lived but dared not speak. This “revelation” is at the basis of Fink’s conception of education. Education is a movement from authority to autonomy, from submission to “pregiven” and ready-made answers toward the creative, the free activity which is its own source.

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