The man and the time in hermeneutic tradition

Abstract

The connection between the characteristics of a person and the change in the objective orientation of philosophical thought, on one hand, and the cognition of the essence of human existence in the world, on the other is considered. With the examples of Antiquity and the Middle Ages it is shown that in the "man-time" ratio, it is "time" that is the most stable and unambiguous category. Each new picture of the world contains an idea of time. To reconstruct these representations in connection with the clarification of the essential nature of man, the hermeneutic approach is called for.