The Care in the Family

Abstract

This paper shows the close relationship between Logotherapy and a metaphysical anthropology based on the personal act of being. It studies the idea of “responsibility”, which Frankl considered a fundamental attribute of the human being. It also relates this idea to an ontological vision of man, following three of the classical transcendentals: truth, good and beauty. Finally, it studies the mutual dependence of the person and the family, which then becomes the framework for care.