Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.31192/np.15.1.2
A Man as Anthropological Integrity: Philosophical Reflection
Lubov E. Motorina
orcid.org/0000-0002-4441-7452
Abstract
The aim of the paper is to analyse anthropological integrity as a subject of philosophical anthropology and to develop a new methodological approach. The paper analyses formation of the subject of philosophical anthropology in the history of philosophy and science. Two possible approaches are revealed: attributive and existential ones; the limitation of the first one is demonstrated and the priority of the second one is shown. It is claimed that existential approach allows overcoming the existing contradictions between the data of different human sciences, which study particular attributes, or projections, and these of the philosophical idea of the man, which has evolved from the perception of the substance (attributive approach) to the comprehension of the human existence through studying the man’s relations to the world and himself. The methodology proposed by the authors is an integration of three complementary elements: categorical modeling, systematic approach, and hermeneutical procedures. Categorical modeling with the use of fundamental anthropological constants forms the area of human studies. The systematic approach specificates anthropological integrity by revealing the main forms of the human existence. Hermeneutical procedures open up possibilities for understanding initially nonsegmented experience manifested in its ontological differences. The interaction of the three complementary elements of the method is demonstrated, in which methodological potential of the fundamental anthropological constants is revealed. The fundamental anthropological constants, on the one hand, are the categorical definitions, and, on the other hand, existentialias, i.e. structural "definitions" of the integral human experience. Considering the fundamental anthropological constants together with systematic approach and hermeneutics Lubov E. Motorina, A Man as Anthropological Integrity: Philosophical R 32 eflection as a methodological basis of the study on anthropological integrity is coherent to the tasks of the man‘s self-determination under the present conditions.
Keywords
man; anthropological integrity; ontological differences; challenges of the man; synthesis of methodologies; categorical modeling; systematic approach; hermeneutics; anthropological constants; existentialia; sameness; selftranscendence
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177891
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Publication date:
21.3.2017.
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