THE ACTUAL MAN – A HEDONIST OR A BEWILDERED MAN?
THE ACTUAL MAN – A HEDONIST OR A BEWILDERED MAN?

Summary/Abstract: This study aims to analyze a contemporary topic that has become the subject of many research and source for statistics in various fields. It is about the new framing of human experience, after man’s existence has entered the era of technologies, in the flow of globalization and has been absorbed by the virtual world, and its emotional features have become addicted to emoticons lacking of expressivity, which induce confusion in choice and in interpretation. The natural environment of the human being, or better said, the setting of a human being in nature, has been distorted. The contemporary man has been affected by urbanization, moving away from both his surrounding nature and his own nature. In this case, the rules of the fortress predisposed him to internal transformations that are compromising both the psychological balance, the original mechanisms of protection and survival, the need for communication, but especially the instinct of belonging. Intrinsically, he feels alone, depressed, isolated, very inactive and without initiative. These ascertainments and remarks will be detailed with arguments regarding the postmodern human’s condition which is looking for chemical, physical or behavioral adjuvants to feel the flame burning inside, that he is still full of life, that he still has signs of existential vitality. It is already highlighted in psychiatric treatises a syndrome of meaninglessness that is spreading more and more among the modern societies. The direction of human ascension has been identified as an axiological fact, that’s why he discovers his meaning and being in relationship with the greater good. The theological perspective, followed by the neuroscience, offers solid fundamentals of self-revelation through communion with a supreme being, called God.

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