Connaissance anthrolopogique et intérêt

Anthropological knowledge, like all forms of knowledge, has deep-seated interests of its own: Habermas and Blumenberg point this out each in their own way. Two scenes borrowed from the works of Stein and Binswanger concerning the existing being’s 'forming his life' illustrate the anthropological int...

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Author:Michel Dupuis
Published: S.n., s.l., 2021
Volume:25
Pages:493-511
Language:French
Periodical:Revue Philosophique de Louvain
Number:4
ISSN:0035-3841
Format:Article
Topic:- Doctrine > Man > Augustinian anthropology
Status:Active
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Summary:Anthropological knowledge, like all forms of knowledge, has deep-seated interests of its own: Habermas and Blumenberg point this out each in their own way. Two scenes borrowed from the works of Stein and Binswanger concerning the existing being’s 'forming his life' illustrate the anthropological interest rather well: both from a hermeneutical and from a pragmatic point of view it is always a question of the formation and the realisation of a human self in its autonomy and dignity, in the constitution of an authentic personal history not reducible to the events and processes that condition its contingency. These two scenes from phenomenological anthropology contain a truly ethical meaning in the perspective of the 'theses' formulated by Frankl. In the final analysis the human phenomenon shows itself to be other than a habitual phenomenon: it presents itself as irreducibly singular, «profound», personal and untotalisable; it is worthy of a specific interest that is not speciesist.

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