Abstract
The article focuses on investigating the humanHuman need for performing fundamentally non-utilitarian actions and on people’s orientation towards being disinterested whereby they are introduced to, and partake of, the whole. The actualization of our life is connected with the humanHuman ability to act and with our performing deeds, when we associate ourselves with a principle and thereby undertake the labour of collecting ourselves. In this context, it is essential to turn to the ultimate and the borderBorder, since they are connected with our need for expending ourselves and abandoning ourselves to the other, when an extended perception of life as a gift is defined and the other turns out to be included into our understanding. The author discusses the meaning of the act of symbolizationSymbolization and analyses the symbolSymbol and the sign in the context of the humanHuman being’s engagement with sense and reasoning. Special emphasis is given to the idea that the humanHuman need for performing disinterested acts becomes more acute with the weakening and disappearance of a presumption according to which any moment of life can, in principle, be consciously comprehended, whereas consciousnessConsciousness itself is perceived as an unlimited power enabling the humanHuman being to associate himself with anything whatsoever.
