Search results for "Philosophical anthropology"
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Mortality as a Philosophical-Anthropological Issue: Thanatology, Normativity, and "Human Nature"
2007
Mortality as a Philosophical-Anthropological Issue: Thanatology, Normativity, and "Human Nature" This paper examines mortality—the fact that we humans are all going to die—as an issue in philosophical anthropology, by applying a fourfold typology of some key forms of philosophical anthropology to the topic of death and mortality. First, this typology, originally suggested by Heikki Kannisto, is outlined; the mortality issue is, then, viewed from the perspective it opens. Finally, the challenges to our understanding of death and mortality that this perspective may help us meet are discussed. The treatment of mortality from the perspective of philosophical anthropology may make it more unders…
El cuerpo enamorado en “resurrección” de L. Tolstói
2012
Revisión crítica de la antropología filosófica del maduro Tolstói sobre el cuerpo enamorado, proyección de sus ideas religiosas sobre la mujer y la sexualidad que lastran la calidad de su obra literaria tardía por los discutibles dualismos platonizantes e idealistas en las descripciones de los móviles de las acciones de los protagonistas. Critical review of the philosophical anthropology of the mature Tolstoy about the body in love. His novel Resurrection shows that the quality of the writer’s late literary works was hindered by his religious ideas about women and sexuality, which entailed dubious platonizing and idealistic dualisms in the descriptions of the main characters’ motives.
Erweiterung des Kantismus, Umgestaltung der Metaphysik. Il giovane Viktor von Weizsäcker lettore di Kant
2015
This paper aims to examine the relationships between the research of young Viktor von Weizsäcker and Kant’s critical thinking. Starting from the criticism of Driesch’s Neovitalism, here are considered some of the major contributions of Weizsacker in the years 1911-1926, in order to show its path between criticism of knowledge, metaphysics, construction of a biology and a medical anthropology.
Somaesthetics as a Discipline Between Pragmatist Philosophy and Philosophical Anthropology
2012
Richard Shusterman’s somaesthetics provides a disciplinary framework in which come together reflections on the body by the main philosophical traditions of the twentieth century; the paper investigates some relations with Plessner and philosophical anthropology, as well as the rediscovery of some of the themes of Baumgarten’s aesthetics.
L’antropologia filosofica di Remo Cantoni: umanismo critico, “connessione orizzontale” e partecipazione
2016
The paper proposes a critical reflection on Remo Cantoni’s philosophical thought, with particular regards to his anthropological point of view that addresses concepts such as “critical humanism” and “horizontal connection”. The strict relationship between anthropology and participation are his main topics on which he has made outstanding remarks in the second decade of XXth century in the Italian cultural panorama. Since his early works, Cantoni points out the need to develop a different way of analysing the pluridimensionality of human beings and widely debates contemporary European cultural context after the end of World War II. The paper tries to put in evidence how Cantoni’s anthropolog…
Place and Positionality – Anthropo(topo)logical Thinking with Helmuth Plessner
2018
This paper explores a possible anthropological dimension of place by providing an interpretation of Helmuth Plessner’s philosophical approach which proposes to understand it as a twofold “implacement” of man – discussing both the place of man in the natural world and man’s specific relation to place that makes him take his place in the natural world. The interpretation follows Plessner’s idea of a natural set of stages, developed in his major work Die Stufen des Organischen und der Mensch, leading from inanimate objects to plants, animals, and humans. According to Plessner, each stage differs from the other by virtue of its respective spatial delineation toward, and its position in, the wor…
FROM UNBURDENING TO LIBERATED EMBODIED SIMULATION A HISTORY OF CONCEPTS
2020
What is imagination? How to think this «act» (action)? How to describe its phenomenology? And, above all, how to situate its very space in human behavior and mind? Can we outline a topic of imagination? I suggest that an ap- propriate blend between the tradition of philosophical anthropology, from Johann Gottfried Herder to Hans Blumenberg, and the new neuroscientific interpretation of «embodied simulation», could help us to refine our concept of imagination. I quote Herder just to refer to a noble forerunner of this genealogy, being the focus of my paper on a more controversial figure, namely Arnold Gehlen, author of an inspiring work of twentieth-century anthropology, Man. His Nature and …
Seneca on the Mother Cow: Poetic Models and Natural Philosophy in the Consolation to Marcia
2020
Seneca’s Consolation to Marcia embraces the orthodox Stoic view that, when unduly protracted, grief reflects a logical misunderstanding of the natural world, human life, and the limits of the self. Seneca is aware that persuading Marcia to leave her false beliefs is the only way to reawaken her interest in communal life, family reciprocity, and constructive memory. He conceives his consolatory writing as an intellectually engaging didactic work tailored to the needs and disposition of his addressee. The main purpose of the present paper is to show that in this and several other respects the Consolation to Marcia makes a conscious move towards the different but evidently related genre of did…
Cuerpo cincelado
2012
Adoptando un enfoque que se nutre de los hallazgos de los estudios postcoloniales y de los estudios de género en el ámbito de la crítica literaria, el texto muestra cuáles son los supuestos desde los que Eliade construye la figura de la mujer oriental en su novela Maitreyi. La noche bengalí. Se descubre así un imaginario también subyacente, de manera extensiva, en la creación de otros personajes femeninos de la narrativa y dramaturgia del autor rumano. Taking an approach that draws on the conclusions reached by PostColonial studies and by Gender studies into the area of literary criticism, the text points out the assumptions from which Eliade builds the figure of oriental women in his novel…
The Centered Reality
2016
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 ch…