Proceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy

Volume 28, 2018

Philosophical Anthropology

Philosophic Anthropology Between Meta-narrative and Case Study

Philosophic anthropology is one of the meta-narrative discourses about human being, providing generalizations of extremely general level in anthropological researches. Philosophical knowledge and epistemic information about the human being, contain also an axiological component, raising a question about the sense of this notion. Completeness and inclusiveness in anthropological research may be reached by means of the resources of the methods of “positive sciences”, as in a case-study. They include visual anthropology, biographical method, and methods of personology, making possible the reference to the individual, unique vivid experience of human existence. The biographical method, connected with individual case histories, is especially important in researching unique events of universal importance in the life of great philosophers, each of whom is an example of a man-principle. Visual anthropology records with documentary accuracy all the details of the lives of humans belonging to various cultures, religions and peoples, contributing to mutual understanding and dialogue. In personology the extremities of anthropocentrism are being overcome by accentuating personal consciousness and self-consciousness, personal and individual experience.