Fruitful imagination, humanistic thinking and humanistic action in the context of the realization of human rights (approaches of metaanthropology and social metaanthropology)

author: Svitlana Krylova (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5528-7438)

 Relevance of the research.The relevance of the research topic is due to the fact that in a situation of war, a person feels uncertainty and insecurity, lack of protection, violation of his rights. Important in such a situation is fruitful imagination and humanistic thinking and action, which enables a person to create and implement an image of a positive future. When we create something fruitful in the imagination, humanistically comprehend it and act, the desired becomes real, including in the implementation of human rights.

Problem statement. In a modern crisis society, a number of questions are important. What is fruitful imagination? How is it related to humanistic thinking and action, in particular to the implementation and protection of human rights?

Analysis of recent research and publications. The problem of imagination and its meaning is raised by M. Ficino and Pico della Mirandola. D. Bruno believes that imagination is capable of opening new worlds, D. Hume notes the importance of imagination in the process of cognition. R. Descartes claims that sensation appears first, and then imagination. I. Kant introduces the concept of productive imagination. E. Husserl points to the connection between imagination and consciousness. M. Scheler notes the role of imagination in the creation of values. Z. Freud emphasizes that imagination is a manifestation of the unconscious. J.-P. Sartre combines imagination and human freedom. Modern Ukrainian researcher G. Ilyina emphasizes that imagination is a dynamic process. Regarding human rights, the ideas of J. Locke about the naturalness and inalienability of human rights, Ch. Montesquieu, who describes such a power that protects individual human rights, are relevant. Y. Habermas notes that universal moral values  are based on human rights. Ukrainian researchers V. Bachynin, K. Zhol, N. Manoilo, S. Slivka, S. Maksimov, P. Rabinovych study human rights in the context of an interdisciplinary approach. The methodology of metaanthropology of N. Khamitov allows us to understand the metamorphoses of imagination in the existential dimensions of human existence and to determine the essential features of fertile imagination, and the methodology of social metaanthropology, which is developed by the author of this article, provides an opportunity to comprehend the application of fertile imagination in the social existence of a person. Based on the methodology of metaanthropology, as well as social metaanthropology, we can connect fertile imagination with humanistic thinking and action and analyze their impact on the implementation and protection of human rights.

Research task. The task of this article is to analyze the relationship between fertile imagination, humanistic thinking and action with the implementation of human rights.

Main material presentation. A fertile imagination can be considered an imagination that is aimed not only at one's own pleasure, but also at the Other, serves not as a means of arbitrariness, but at strengthening freedom and love - not only one's own, but also at the Other. A fertile imagination directs a person to create a harmonious image, which subsequently turns into humanistic thinking and, through action, is realized in the provision and protection of human rights. Destructive imagination, on the contrary, is aimed at creating a negative image, which generates destructive thinking and leads to the violation not only of human rights, but also of the life of the entire society. The answer is given to the question of what is primary: fertile imagination or humanistic thinking, which directs to positive action, which means the reality of ensuring human rights.

Conclusions. Effective protection of human rights is a consequence of a fertile imagination, which generates humanistic thinking, which in turn directs to positive action in the protection of human rights.

Keywords: imagination, fertile imagination, human rights, humanistic thinking, humanistic action, metaanthropology, social metaanthropology, everyday human existence, human limitless being, metalimitless human existence, philosophical cinema, intelligent altruism.

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