https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.510
Human, as it was written by L. V. Thomas, is an animal that buries the deceased. This statement, which seems to be obvious, implies extremely important problems that are the issue of research of broadly understood anthropology. First of all, the fact of „burying the deceased” determines self-awareness of the human as a being that is aware of his mortality. Secondly, it determines him as the one who knows and recognizes himself, as a being that is a part of the laws of nature, which he is subordinate to. Thirdly, he is the foundation of having an attitude towards these laws, reacting on them, trying to win with them. From the moment the human became self-aware, understood his place in nature and laws of nature he is subordinate to, he is trying to work out measures that will allow him to control the nature, and to rule it eventually. Culture became the answer to the inevitable laws of physis. Thanks to it the human can partially escape nature. In comparison to other animals he has the ability to react to finality, which all animals are subordinate to. On one hand he understands the finality he is a part of - laws of nature, on the other hand he transcends what sanctions him naturally - and forms culture on the basis of metaphysics.
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