ABSTRACT

The relational experience of man’s humanity, again, can be interpreted as referring man as an organical part to a social organism, and lead to different socio-biological and utilitarian views, or it can be interpreted as contained entirely in the single man who enters subsequently into a relationship of mutual respect, with the equal and integer humanity of others, and lead to morality. Finally the vitalistic experience of man’s uniqueness can be interpreted as providing proof for the existence of the unique and exceptional personalities among men and as a vindication of the exceptional rights and privileges of these exceptional personalities. One keeps the moral content of ‘morality’ intact but vindicates it on non moral grounds, i.e. on the religious ground of being the command of God which must be obeyed for the love of God. The moral attitude to social reform is sufficiently obvious.