PARAKLETOS AND DECONSTRUCTION OF THE CULT OF ABSOLUTE INDEPENDENCE OF THE HUMAN INDIVIDUAL

Abstract

The study seeks to provide a methodological critique of the cult of absolute independence of the human individual, based on a mimetic analysis by René Girard and its relationship to the anthropological bases of thought of Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche's thinking positions itself as one of the most influential pillars of contemporary individualism, relativism, and belief in the absolute independence of the human individual. Yet, Nietzsche's philosophy is one of the inspirational sources of mimetic theory of culture, which is one of the most comprehensive critiques of subjective human autonomy. In terms of conceptual thinking about culture and the human individual, the key starting point for both authors is an anthropological analysis of the Gospels, which both approach as the prism of cultural-social anthropology.