@article{Bajda, author = {Bajda, Zbigniew}, title = {Homo Consumens versus Homo Patiens (The Dilemmas of Postmodern Reality)}, series = {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]}, journal = {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]}, abstract = {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.}, language = {en} }