November 2016
Each living being must interact with its environment in order to survive. For living beings, vital contact between organism and environment must always be maintained—in the face of all the risks of breaking away, in a manner of “continuous discontinuity,” so to speak. We can call this principle of sustaining contact the “Subject” of life in the precise etymological sense of subjectum, which designates what lies at the base of all living behavior. In so far as the “Subject” can be effective only as long as the organism continues to live, it certainly belongs to this organism, but it by no means resides inside of it.
If we take a pure philosophic approach to the problem of human control over the liquor amount he or she drinks, we come to an important issue of the free will. What’s more, the will is hereby understood as a part of moral self-perception. Something that helps human become a person. Certainly, any freedom is philosophically comparative. It’s limited by circumstances, for example. In this case, opinions clash with real life, an individual’s moral norms can contradict a public opinion, and sweet dreams face the harsh reality of their realization. The absolute freedom is always a dream. The social control is the prototype of the internal one, as a rule

