Freedom of human self-transformation: Negation of charity in social work

Abstract

The key controversy of humanistic activity of social work derives from its teleology of offering aid to individuals, groups and entire communities which are not capable to satisfy primary existential needs on their own. Such offering of unilateral aid to the disabled is under the risk to gain the character of charity, which is deprived of true humanity, concerning that it stigmatizes and makes those who are left to Samaritan mercy of the powerful ones passive, dependant and inferior. Negation in the essence of inhuman charitable social work is an attempt for wake-up and stimulation of human self-transformation based on active self-activity and use of own potentials of every individual, leading to moral self-advancement as a specially assigned purpose of man, by which this universal activity justifies the attribute of true aim toward humanity.

Ključno protivurečije humanističke delatnosti socijalnog rada proizilazi iz njegove teleologije pružanja pomoći onim pojedincima, grupama i čitavim zajednicama koji nisu sposobni da vlastitim snagama zadovoljavaju primarne egzistencijalne potrebe. Takvo pružanje jednosmerne pomoći nemoćnima, u riziku je da poprimi karakter milosrđa, koje je lišeno istinske humanosti, s obzirom da stigmatiše, pasivizira, zavisnim i inferiornim čini one koji su prepušteni samarićanskoj milosti moćnih. Negacija u biti ne-humanog milosrdnog socijalnog rada, je pokušaj buđenja i podsticanja ljudskog samopreobražavanja zasnovanog na delatnom samoaktivitetu i korišćenju sopstvenih potencijala svake individue, što vodi moralnom samousavršavanju kao rodno zadatoj svrsi čoveka, čime ova univerzalna delatnost opravdava epitet istinske težnje ka ljudskosti.