Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of integral being of a person. The whole man is opposed to the partial man. It is explained that such a person appears as a result of the social division of objective activity, leading to the loss of the fullness of the attributes of human essence by a person. There are three main types of human existence – individual, individuality and personality. Each of them is based on something. The individual has an abstract universality as its basis, as a result of which he differs little from other individuals and figures like everyone else. Man as an individuality, on the contrary, is based on abstract singularity, reaching the uniqueness, which can manifest itself in anything. As a result, individuality can be both positive and negative. A person as a personality has a specific feature as a synthesis of abstract universality and abstract individuality; but in it only its positive content enters from individuality. Personality always exists as a whole; there is no partial personality. At the same time, in that period of human history, which began after the disintegration of the primitive system and continues also at the present time, man as a person contains in himself in synthesis only the leading attributes of man. The transformation of each person into a totally integral personality is possible only as a result of overcoming and eliminating alienation, the prospects for which are currently extremely problematic.

Key words: integral person, partial person, individual, individuality, personality, activity, division of activity, alienation, social role, ethics, religion, freedom.