philosophical anthropology is current of thought founded in Germany in the years 1920 and 1930. Joining together Philosopher S, Anthropologist S and Sociologist S, this movement have a determining influence in the German intellectual landscape of the 20th century.

“Never in the history such as we know it, the man was not as much as today a problem for itself” (max Scheler)

Summary presentation

Philosophical anthropology marked before a whole decisive anthropological turning in philosophy (critical of the idealistic tradition and Cartesian dualism with the profit of a design of the man like physical and psychic unit) and was also an answer to the aporias of the German historism. The base of its step was to make profitable the lesson sciences of nature (Biologie, Zoologie, ethology, Paléoanthropologie, etc) and Social sciences to try to determine the characteristics of the mankind, its position specific in the world vis-a-vis to the mineral kingdom, vegetable and animal.

Its principal representatives are max Scheler (1874-1928), Helmuth Plessner (1892-1985) and Arnold Gehlen (1904-1976).

Bonds

• German Article of Wikipédia on Helmuth Plessner
• German Article of Wikipédia on Arnold Gehlen
• German Article of Wikipédia on max Scheler

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