Personal Being: Recognition and Justification (On the Issue of Sociocultural Ontology)

Objective of the study is of the research is to consider the individual human being, realized as "I" through the prism of socio-cultural ontology. The author sets the task to describe the existence of a personality as part of the existence of a culture with a communicative nature, as well as to note the different modes of an individual's experience of his existential status among other people associated with the assessment of his significance. The methodological basis of the research is primarily the humanistic ideas of psychologists and philosophers of the twentieth century, which set the vision of the inner world of an individual through the prism of constant socio-cultural interactions, as well as the ideas of the Russian philosopher V. B. Melas, who proposes to consider existence in culture using the categories of acceptance, recognition and support, without which both a person and an artifact turn out to be conditionally "non-existent". Results of the study of the research is the fixation of the fact that in a socio-cultural context, a person's being – and his image in the eyes of other people, and his well-being – is determined by how he is accepted, how recognized and supported. "Unrecognized" and "unsupported" disappears from the socio-cultural horizon and, as a result of this deprivation of status, turns into "nothing" in a certain sense. Therefore, the author notes the importance of self-acceptance, self-recognition and self-support, when an individual, taking care of himself, is not only able to maintain his existential status, but also become a support for others. Part of the strengthening of existential rootedness in life and culture is also the idea of a person that his being is justified – in the eyes of others and in his own view. Research рerspectives. Each of the points that make up this article can be expanded on a more extensive material. In this way, options for experiencing "insignificance" and options for approaching the "I" to a sense of "fullness of being" can be analyzed in detail, both situations of "non-recognition" in different life circumstances, and the completeness of recognition, which has different consequences. For the theme of justification of life, the plot of justification by love is very promising.