Homo Sapiens, A Problematic Species

An Essay in Philosophical Anthropology

By (author) Mia Gosselin

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Publication date:

25 November 2014

Length of book:

273 pages

Publisher

UPA

ISBN-13: 9780761865209

BOOK DESCRIPTION
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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 thought and 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.

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