THE PROBLEM OF THE BEGINNING OF HISTORY

Abstract

The paper considers the problem of the beginning of human history. Man is defined as soul (homo animus), anthropogenesis is regarded as the Genesis of the soul, the beginning of history – as the emergence of human entelechy soulitself: thinking, active, aesthetic, religious, moral. The Genesis of man is the history of the gathering, the actualization of his soul. The soul is developed gradually and heterochronically: first, the thinking-active aspect is triggered, then sensual (aesthetic) perception awakens, then – supersensual (religious), hereinafter referred to as moral distress. One after another and in communication with one another, the emotional entelechia reach sufficient maturity. The design of the most important entelechy and their integration allow us to speak about the formation of the soul (and therefore human) as the integrity. People cannot be reduced to one part, albeit important; a ‘quarter’ of a person (soul) is not the person (the soul). The Genesis of the soul as integrity takes about 2.5 million years, having finished about 30 thousand years ago; it is to that time the evolution of pre-man into man can be attributed, and hence, so can the beginning of actual human history.

Keywords

• soul, body, people, history, anthropology, art, taboo, ritual, religion, morality, entelechy, homo habilis, homo erectus, homo sapiens, homo animus