Philosophical Anthropology, Ethics and Political Philosophy in an Age of Impending Catastrophe
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Philosophical anthropology, ethics, political philosophy, Aristotle, Hobbes, Herder, Hegel, Schelling, Marx, hierarchy theory, C.S. Peirce, biosemiotics, human ecology, cultureAbstract
In this paper it is argued that philosophical anthropology is central to ethics and politics. The denial of this has facilitated the triumph of debased notions of humans developed by Hobbes which has facilitated the enslavement of people to the logic of the global market, a logic which is now destroying the ecological conditions for civilization and most life on Earth. Reviving the classical understanding of the central place of philosophical anthropology to ethics and politics, the early work of Hegel and Marx is explicated, defended and further developed by interpreting this through developments in post-mechanistic science. Overcoming the opposition between the sciences and the humanities, it is suggested that the conception of humans developed in this way can orient people in their struggle for the liberty to avert a global ecological catastrophe.Published
24-11-2009
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Gare, A. (2009). Philosophical Anthropology, Ethics and Political Philosophy in an Age of Impending Catastrophe. Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 5(2), 264–286. Retrieved from https://cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/160
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