Summary Human Conditions 1

Human conditions I




Jurian Traas
FW-WB3926

, Table of contents
Lecture I...................................................................................................................................................................2
Three different images of man in the human sciences.........................................................................................3
Relationship between the three models................................................................................................................4

Lecture II..................................................................................................................................................................4
Transcendental philosophy..................................................................................................................................4
Kant’s general critique on reason........................................................................................................................4
The critique of pure reason, 1781........................................................................................................................5

Lecture III................................................................................................................................................................6
The synthesis of reason........................................................................................................................................6
Critique of practical reason, 1787.......................................................................................................................7
Critique of judgement, 1790.................................................................................................................................7
Implications of Kant’s ontological subjectivism..................................................................................................8

Lecture IV................................................................................................................................................................8
Hermeneutic understanding.................................................................................................................................8
A horizon of experience........................................................................................................................................9
Three types of hermeneutics.................................................................................................................................9
Globalization........................................................................................................................................................9

Lecture V................................................................................................................................................................10
Evolutionary theories: Lamarck & Darwin.......................................................................................................10
Neo-Darwinism..................................................................................................................................................10

Lecture VI..............................................................................................................................................................11
Overview of the main species.............................................................................................................................11
Three models of human evolution......................................................................................................................11
The cognitive evolution of homo sapiens...........................................................................................................11
Fundamental characteristics of information culture.........................................................................................12

Lecture VII.............................................................................................................................................................12
Plessner’s three types of positionality................................................................................................................12
The double aspectivity........................................................................................................................................12
Three anthropological laws...............................................................................................................................13
Three different images of man in the human sciences.......................................................................................13

Lecture VIII...........................................................................................................................................................13
Homo sapiens 3.0...............................................................................................................................................13
Philosophical anthropology 2.0.........................................................................................................................14


Lecture I
Philosophical anthropology: what does it mean to be a human being?

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