El Drama de la Existencia Humana: Problema del Hombre, Problema de Dios de Partir de Job

Abstract

The present work focuses on the human drama that many experience both in daily life and in faith. Where the main actor is man since he is the only one who can give himself and his existence an end, he is also endowed with the capacity for reflection, he questions himself and turns on himself in an attempt to determine the course of his life, this leads him to consider himself as a theological being. That is why human life is sometimes dramatic, so that an approach from the experience of the main character in the book of Job can provide clear perspectives that help shed light on the dramas that the human being faces in order to resignify them and endow them with of meaning, so that these experiences are seen more as those experiences from which growth is propitiated. To determine these elements and build a sapiential reflection that accounts for a transforming action in human existence, the pericope of Job 14, 1-6 will be taken into consideration as a starting point to consider the drama of life in relation to its brevity. and to the desire for transcendence present in the human being. For this reason, at first, the work will be focused on carrying out the approach to the research problem, the theoretical framework and the objectives of the research work. For a second moment, the work will seek to carry out an analysis of the pericope where the wisdom background of the Biblical text is characterized, the categories of the text are identified, light is provided to the questions that arise today and finally it seeks to establish a reflection on the understanding of the meaning of life and of the “human drama, man's problem, God's problem”. In a third moment, the work will be focused on considering suffering and human existence from the philosophical and sapiential field. Here, the question of the absurdity of existence will be presented from the perspective proposed by Camus, to identify the way in which suffering is presented in the subjectivity of the subject. In parallel to this, the text of Job is shown as a collective attempt to respond to the absurd. In the same way, the question of evil seen will be considered not as an entity, but as caused, note that it is present throughout the text since Job is presented as someone who suffers from evil. Thus, both suffering, evil and the meaning of existence are presented as subjective to the extent that they affect a subject and their intersubjectivity as it affects everyone.