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Article name	The Joy of Being as Anthropological Practice
Authors	Agapov O.D. Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, ag.oleg2015@yandex.ru
Bibliographic description	Agapov O. D. The Joy of Being as Anthropological Practice // Humanitarian Vector. 2021. Vol. 16, No. 2. PP. 66–73. DOI: 10.21209/1996-7853-2021-16-2-66-73
Section	AXIOLOGY OF CULTURE
UDK	141.333+177.7
DOI	10.21209/1996-7853-2021-16-2-66-73
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Annotation	The joy of being is connected with one’s activities aimed at responding to the challenges of the elemental forces and the boundlessness of being, which are independent of human subjectivity. In the context of rising to the challenges of being, one settles to acquire a certain power of being in themselves and in the world. Thus, the joy of being is tied to achieving the level of the “miraculous fecundity” (E. Levinas), “an internal necessity of one’s life” (F. Vasilyuk), magnanimity (M. Mamardashvili). The ontological duty of any human being is to succeed at being human. The joy of being is closely connected to experiencing one’s involvement in the endless/eternity and realizing one’s subjective temporality/finitude, which attunes him to the absolute seriousness in relation to one’s complete realization in life. Joy is a foundational anthropological phenomenon in the structure of ways of experiencing the human condition. The joy of being as an anthropological practice can appear as a constantly expanding sphere of human subjectivity where the transfiguration of the powers of being occurs under the sign of the Height (Levinas) / the Good. Without the possibility of transfiguration human beings get tired of living, imhttpmerse themselves in the dejected state of laziness and the hopelessness of vanity. The joy of being is connected to unity, gathering the multiplicity of human life under the aegis of meaning that allows us to see the other and the alien in heteronomous being, and understand the nature of co-participation and responsibility before the forces of being, and also act in synergy with them.The joy of being stands before a human being as the joy of fatherhood/ motherhood, the joy of being a witness to the world in creative acts (the subject as a means to retreat before the world and let the world shine), the joy of every day that was saved from absurdity, darkness and the impersonal existence of the total.
Key words	joy, higher reality, anthropological practices, “the height”, subject, transcendence, practice of coping
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