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Being Humans : Anthropological Universality and Particularity in Transdisciplinary Perspectives /

Being Humans : Anthropological Universality and Particularity in Transdisciplinary Perspectives / Neil Roughley. - Reprint 2012 - 1 online resource (435 p.)

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- On Being Humans. An Introduction -- I Conceptualising the Human -- Anthropological Universality. On the Validity of Generalisations about Human Nature / "World-Openness" and the Question of Anthropological Universalism. Comments on Justin Stagl's Paper / A Reply to Neil Roughley / Human Nature, Human Variety, Human Freedom / A Cultural-Historical View of Human Nature / Human Diversity and Human Nature. The Life and Times of a False Dichotomy / II Contexts of the Human -- Encountering the Other through Grammar / A Grammar of Human Life? Comments on Rom Harré's Paper / A Reply to Thomas Luckmann / Human Universals and their Implications / Are Women Human? / III Anthropology, Literature and the Aesthetic -- Redefining the Human. A Survey of Approaches to Literary Anthropology / Approaching Literary Anthropology. Comments on Aleida Assmann's Paper / A Reply to Gottfried Seebass / Understanding Homer: Literature, History and Ideal Anthropology / The Implications of Human Picture Making: The Articulation of Visual Space / Universality and Cultural Particularity in Visual Aesthetics / IV Humanity, Morality and Politics -- Learning to be Natural / Emotion, Moral Value and Being Human. Comments on Ronald de Sousa's Paper / A Reply to Wolfgang Friedlmeier / Politics and the Unnatural Infirmity of Being Human / Rationality, Autonomy and Basic Needs / Hedgehogs, Foxes, and Persons: Resistance and Moral Creativity in East Germany and South India / Afterword: "Human Nature". A Conceptual Matrix -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors Stagl, Justin -- Roughley, Neil -- Stagl, Justin -- Midgley, Mary -- Cole, Michael / Levitin, Karl -- Shore, Bradd -- Harré, Rom -- Luckmann, Thomas -- Harré, Rom -- Brown, Donald E. -- Haste, Helen -- Assmann, Aleida -- Seebass, Gottfried -- Assmann, Aleida -- Williams, Bernard -- Harrison, Andrew -- van Damme, Wilfried -- de Sousa, Ronald -- Friedlmeier, Wolfgang -- de Soma, Ronald -- Berry, Christopher J. -- Copp, David -- Carrithers, Michael --

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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9783110169744 9783110822809

10.1515/9783110822809 doi


Philosophical anthropology.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Philosophische Anthropologie.
PHILOSOPHY / General.

BD450

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