Abstract

Phenomenon and concept of the person are closely connected to the development of European civilizations. They are elements of the process how Europe took its place in the world and how it is, so to say, organizing its household. The article deals with the thesis that »person« is a certain kind of realizing the »self«. »Person« refers to a process in which conventional characterizations of that, what a person is – expressed by concepts like freedom, autonomy, human dignity –, are only late stages whose possibility grounds in previous constitutions. This process is a fluctuating medium that changed the meaning of person and defined the oikos of Europe to a certain extent. The scene of this event is the European theatre that invents itself at the same time; its coordinates build the residence of the European human being and spread from here all over the world. This article analyzes the structural schemata of this development within the context of an oikology. Such oikological research can demonstrate, by which circumstances human existence takes root in reality, builds world and reshapes the contexts of sociality and nature.