Mia Gosselin

Homo Sapiens, A Problematic Species (eBook, ePUB)

An Essay in Philosophical Anthropology

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Homo Sapiens, A Problematic Species examines how Western culture has understood and continues to understand what it is to be human. This book features reflections on mythical thoughtand its logic and contrasts it to the Western conception of man as expressed in philosophy from antiquity to the twentieth century, its main sources being Christianity and the idealistic tenet in antique Greek philosophy. The author stresses the necessity to break away from a religious and metaphysical perception of man that is inevitably anthropocentric in order to construct a more scientifically based anthropology appropriate to tackle the threats our species poses to the vast ecological system on Earth.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 273
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761865209
• Artikelnr.: 42132735

Autorenporträt

Mia Gosselin is professor emeritus of the Free University Brussels (VUB). Having acquired a thorough knowledge of the history of philosophy, she later specialized in epistemology and founded the Center of Empirical Epistemology of the VUB. She taught philosophical anthropology for more than thirty years.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I. Before Philosophy
Chapter 1. The psychology of mythical thought
Chapter 2. The human individual in primitive thought
Chapter 3. The conflict between primitive ways of thinking and Aristotelian
logic
Part II. Philosophers on the Subject of Man.
A Concise Historical Overview
General Introduction
Chapter 4. Antiquity
Chapter 5. The Church Fathers and the philosophers of the Middle Ages:
theology and philosophy, a compromise
Chapter 6.Rationalism versus Empiricism
Chapter 7.Idealism and Marxism
Chapter 8.A complete break with Western tradition
Chapter 9. The twentieth century: more of the same
Bibliography
Index of Names