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Being Human - Philosophical Anthropology through Phenomenology (Paperback)
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Being Human - Philosophical Anthropology through Phenomenology (Paperback)
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Being Human is the fruit of many years teaching Philosophical
Anthropology, conducting Phenomenological Workshops, and reading
classic texts in the light of a reflective awareness of the field
of experience. Being Human is intended to look to what is typically
assumed but not examined in much of current philosophical
literature. Today what typically appear as philosophical are
textual studies that draw upon wide-ranging scholarship to learn
how past thinkers used to think; or works that tend either to be
"high-flying," operating at levels of abstraction far removed from
experience and written in arcane style, and thus, for both reasons,
difficult to assess (much of Continental thought); or minutely
focused upon particular claims and the arguments that can be
advanced for and against them (Analytical thought); or
deconstructing texts to show how they do not fully work (the
followers of Jacques Derrida). Scholarly study, abstract
constructions, refined arguments, and deconstructive strategies are
each important in their own way; but all take place within the
structure of the field of experience which is typically assumed
without paying explicit attention to it. Especially in philosophy
of mind, the overall field of experience has too often been
ignored, usually in favor of some conjecture as to how our ordinary
categories would have to be changed when neuro-physiology will be
far enough advanced to explain all our behavior. Robert E. Wood
claims that it is best to understand what it is that is supposed to
be explained before conjecturing about possible explanations. But
when you do that, you will have to come to terms with what it means
to seek explanation, what a Who is that seeks it, and why it is
sought.
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