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Der lebensphilosophische Unergründlichkeitsgedanke und seine Bedeutung für die philosophische Anthropologie

  • Wolfgang Gantke
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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to maintain the importance of the principle of unfathomability for a philosophical anthropology. Although philosophical anthropology is often associated with the idea of presenting some ‘nature’ of man, authors like Helmuth Plessner or Otto Friedrich Bollnow develop forms of anthropology that are suitable for understanding man as an ‘open question’ which also means a fundamental openness to the future. My discussion focuses on the implications for a religious ecology and an intercultural philosophy of religion. Recognizing the fact that nature is fundamentally unfathomable, we should be aware of our limitations. Against this background it is shown that there are interesting connections between the discussion about the ecology and the discussion about the holy. It raises the fundamental question of the position of man in the cosmos

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to maintain the importance of the principle of unfathomability for a philosophical anthropology. Although philosophical anthropology is often associated with the idea of presenting some ‘nature’ of man, authors like Helmuth Plessner or Otto Friedrich Bollnow develop forms of anthropology that are suitable for understanding man as an ‘open question’ which also means a fundamental openness to the future. My discussion focuses on the implications for a religious ecology and an intercultural philosophy of religion. Recognizing the fact that nature is fundamentally unfathomable, we should be aware of our limitations. Against this background it is shown that there are interesting connections between the discussion about the ecology and the discussion about the holy. It raises the fundamental question of the position of man in the cosmos

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