The experience of trust in the context of exhaustion and solitude of a man in the modern society

Introduction. Phenomena that reveal the anthropological subjectivity of both oneself and in relation to others fall into modern philosophical optics. Nevertheless, these phenomena can be considered independently. The main focus of the study is the analysis of the features of solitude, fatigue, and trust. The philosophical and anthropological approaches of thinkers of the 20th and 21st centuries (such as H. Arendt, M. Schiller, M. Heidegger, B.-Ch. Han and others) provide an answer to the question of who a person is: the place of human in the universe, how one affects and influences on other.
Materials and methods. We used the researches belonged to the philosophers of Russia and Western countries and analyzed it using hermeneutical approach and comparative analysis. In particular, we studied the characteristics that describe a connection between a man and the environment.
Results. The conducted study reveals that a man grows a person provided that the work is wellreflected in the sense that the conditions of the word are fragmentary. Due to a partial and fragmented process of interaction between a man and the society, the first tends to a consumer attitude than to his personality enrichment. Implementing trust as a category we use to explain a man’s attitude to the society, we conclude that the more a man trusts the more fully he lives, because he knows what he lacks and understands how it can be used in the life.
Discussion and conclusions. Large-scale social upheavals lead a person to a state of alienation, which is expressed in the desire for loneliness, while feeling tired can be the key to changing the situation. Modern society says what a subject can do, which sounds like faith in a person’s ability to complete a particular task. However, this luring of the boundaries of “can not” leads to an increase in productivity and, at the same time, fatigue, which ultimately reflects in the experience of solitude and a decrease in trust in others. Greater independence leads to apathy, including work, which detaches from the outside world, and therefore leads to a decrease in trust.

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