The nature of experience as living

The article reveals the existential bases of experience. The research positions of H.-G. Gadamer, E. Husserl, G.W.F. Hegel on the problem of experience are compared. The idea of the paradox of experience, consisting in its simultaneous isolation and openness, is indicated. It is shown that through experience people are able to learn their limits and openness to the general, the universal. An existential version of the interpretation of experience as an experience of living is proposed. It is shown that experience retains its significance without being disproved by new experience, and this determines the essence of any of its forms - scientific or everyday, the general essence of experience. It is shown that the typical in experience closes in it through the integrity of an individual life. Experience is paradoxical, exclusive, and this is its uniqueness and significance. Forming the integrity of an individual life, experience, by virtue of its paradox, expressed in the unity of isolation and openness, is open to the new and the different in the being of a human. A thesis is formulated that experience in its life manifestation is connected with living - the ability of the life manifestation of experience. Living is interpreted as a direct internal grasp of phenomena. The nature of living is intentional. Living reflects the immediacy in which a person reveals life, the life world. In the article, experience is described as a life manifestation, and living experience as being. It is shown that such an explanation of the essence of experience came with the phenomenology of Husserl, who gave an ontological interpretation of the phenomena. Immanent philosophy, a new interpretation of epistemology as a sphere of ontology (N.A. Berdyaev, N.O. Lossky), and the understanding of ontology given by S.L. Frank, M. Heidegger also contributed to the explanation. Experience of living united the being of man and its comprehension. Experience of living gained values, thus identifying the most significant for a person and filling this significant with vital meaning. Since experience as experience-living is open (closing the passed, experience refutes schemes, dogmas, stereotypes), and is open by experience itself, Being is revealed in experience: experience for an individual is always a way to revelation.

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