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Friday, October 24, 2014

Grice the Anthropologist



Thomas Leinkauf,

Selbstrealisierung: Anthropologische Konstanten in der Frühen Neuzeit

"In this essay, I try to give a survey of anthropological thinking in early modern philosophy, taking ‘anthropology’ not in its modern sense and not even sensu strictu as for example Otto Casman did it in his work from the late 16th century, i.e.: as the physiology of the human being, but sensu lato as a philosophical reflection on the condition of man as an ‘animal rationale’"

Casman, like Grice, divides

anthropologia

onto

psychologia proper

and

somatology

The first, the study of soul, the second the study of body.

"My arguments focus on three ‘directions’ of the inner movement of the mental and psychological activity of mankind (towards God, towards the mind itself, towards the world), which, taken all together, form the total concept of “Selbstrealisierung” (realisation of the self)."

Grice may disagree.

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