TY - JOUR A1 - Bajda, Zbigniew T1 - Homo Consumens versus Homo Patiens (The Dilemmas of Postmodern Reality) T2 - The Person and the Challenges, Vol. 10, No. 1 (2020), pp. 17-28. [Online ISSN 2391-6559] [czasopisma.upjp2.edu.pl/thepersonandthechallenges/article/view/3609/3497] N2 - The contemporary >homo consumens< does not want to accept that his ontic status is still best defined by the words >homo patiens<. Today’s attempts to eliminate suffering through constantly stimulated consumption may be considered as an act of the >degradation< of humans and humanity who by rejecting the truth about their nature as suffering creatures, paradoxically also lose the meaning of their life. If one denies suffering, then – at the same time – one closes oneself before life. For the escape from suffering is anything but the escape from life, at least the one that is experienced in a conscious and sensible way. Y1 - 2020 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-Fromm/frontdoor/index/index/docId/38571 ER -