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The Centered Reality

Alice Pugliese

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PsychoanalysisAnthropologyCommunicationPhilosophy05 social sciences0211 other engineering and technologies0507 social and economic geographySettore M-FIL/03 - Filosofia Morale021107 urban & regional planning02 engineering and technologyPhilosophical anthropologyNaturalism philosophical anthropology Helmuth Plessner positionalityPhilosophy050703 geographyNaturalism

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This paper discusses the criticism of naturalism based on the irreducibility of first-person-perspective facts. This critique considers naturalism insufficient since it proposes the view of reality as a centerless dimension. However, simply reintegrating subjective facts into a naturalistic view of reality we eventually produce a split situation in which conscious and self-conscious forms of life require a special consideration, thus appearing as separated from the whole of reality. In order to overcome what turns out to be a dualistic interpretation of reality, this paper considers Helmuth Plessner’s non-naturalistic approach. It elaborates the notion of positionality and aspectivity as charac-teristics of all natural forms of life, thus leading to the consideration of reality an essentially centered dimension and of humans as part of nature.

https://doi.org/10.5840/du201626344