“Religious situation” (M. Buber) in the structure of human existence
The article deals with the attitude of a person to the absolute (including in such ultimate form as the denial of his existence), which is a basic situation of self-determination of a person at the spiritual-existential and moral levels of his being and is defined by the term “religious situation” (M. Buber). It is shown that the “religious situation” from a simple paradox and antinomy is positively resolved as a special appeal to the world, in which all relations are included in the process of transformation by the volitional effort of man’s love for all things. In turn, atheistic consciousness is based on the phenomenon of “duality” (A. Ukhtomsky), i.e. attribution to believers of their own stereotypes of thinking due to the isolation of anti-religious consciousness.