PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, ETHICS, AND LOVE: TOWARD A NEW RELIGION AND SCIENCE DIALOGUE.
His major fields of interest are
philosophical anthropology, Marxism, Soviet and post-Soviet studies and the philosophy of art.
Furthermore, Greek
philosophical anthropology assumed an atomistic world view, paradigmatically expressed in Plato and given its modern version by Descartes.
A legitimate
philosophical anthropology must know that there is not merely a human species but also peoples, not merely a human soul but also types and characters, not merely a human life but also stages in life; only from the... recognition of the dynamic that exerts power within every particular reality and between them, and from the constantly new proof of the one in the many, can it come to see the wholeness of man.
Buber defines «
philosophical anthropology» as the study of «the wholeness of man,» and he lists the following as among the problems «which are implicitly set up at the same time by this question»:
At the same time Buber disagrees with Heidegger in his belief that
philosophical anthropology can provide a foundation for metaphysics or for the individual philosophical sciences.
In defining
philosophical anthropology as the problem of finding one essence of man in the constant flux of individuals and cultures, Buber has once again made visible the way of the «narrow ridge.»
This question opens up problems of personal biography which can be approached from the perspectives of education, psychology, sociology,
philosophical anthropology, and religion.
He has also expanded and deepened his interest in Hasidism, Judaism, Zionism, and religious socialism, and he has explored the implications of his I - Thou philosophy for education, community, sociology, psychology, art, and
philosophical anthropology.
The way toward this integration has been indicated by Buber himself in his treatment of
philosophical anthropology, psychology, education, ethics, social philosophy, myth, and history.
In
the philosophical anthropology of Max Scheler, as in the Freudian psychoanalysis from which it in part derives, this division of spirit and impulse is regarded as basic to man's nature.
The problem of
philosophical anthropology is the problem of a specific totality and of its specific structure.
[«Der Mensch und sein Gebild,» which will be a part of Buber's forthcoming book on
philosophical anthropology, was published by Verlag Lambert Schneider, Heidelberg, 1955.]-RRB-
Although
philosophical anthropology can not replace the specific disciplines dealing with the study of man, neither can those disciplines be entirely separated from it.
Further, if Heidegger's reputation for attention to the «big» issues of
philosophical anthropology means anything at all, it would also seem to mean that Heidegger's «philosophy of being» can not be distinguished from considerations about how one ought to behave — and a fortiori how Heidegger behaved.
The first is «exocentricism» as employed by 20th - century
philosophical anthropology — one must ground one's identity outside oneself — but for which Pannenberg finds a foundation in Luther's understanding of faith.
The problem then becomes how to reconcile
a philosophical anthropology of individualism with the mutuality and interrelatedness of society, and the concept of civil society is that synthesis by which these theses have been bridged.
One argument might focus on
a philosophical anthropology: the natural ends of the body and the proper function of the sex organs.
Not exact matches
James describes the emerging confrontation between
philosophical cosmology and historical theology and the avenues for resolution offered by process philosophy for metaphysics,
anthropology and evolution.
Whitehead himself had very little to offer by way of a formal
anthropology or a
philosophical ethic.
No
philosophical description of human beings, resting as it does on what can be seen and measured, can reach the profundity of biblical
anthropology, which rests upon invisible relationships.
In his lectures he also used the vocabularies of psychology, cultural and
philosophical history, sociology,
anthropology, art and politics.
From this reflection emerges an
anthropology that is grounded in the dignity of the human person and which provides the
philosophical foundations for the Church's teaching on marriage and family life.
We can ask why Whitehead did not reformulate his basic
philosophical problem in the context of an
anthropology which takes into account the processes balancing the concrete individual with its own publicity, which it can only simulate --(in connection with which Whitehead's theory of propositions would offer a still completely unexhausted source for such a development).
Although rooted in Avery's own upbringing on the Scottish island Mull, the landscape, architecture and
anthropology of The Island are evolved through diverse mathematical and
philosophical systems.
This chronological anthology reflects on the aesthetic, cultural and
philosophical meaning of colour to artists within the broader context of
anthropology, film, philosophy and science.