Mia Gosselin

Homo Sapiens, A Problematic Species

An Essay in Philosophical Anthropology

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book evaluates the Western conception of man. After having examined primitive thought in which Nature comprises everything that exists, including man, the author explains why in Western thought man is usually not only different from Nature, but opposed to it, which may have grave consequences to Nature's fate.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 402g
• ISBN-13: 9780761865193
• ISBN-10: 0761865195
• Artikelnr.: 41752329

Autorenporträt

Mia Gosselin is professor emeritus of the Free University Brussels (VUB). Having acquired a thorough knowledge of the history of philosophy, she later specialized in epistemology and founded the Center of Empirical Epistemology of the VUB. She taught philosophical anthropology for more than thirty years.

Inhaltsangabe

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