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Life-Philosophical Anthropology as the Missing Third: On Peter Gordon's Continental Divide

  • Though Peter Gordon mentioned philosophical anthropology in his book Continental Divide, he has not yet realized how it works independently from Cassirer's and Heidegger's prejudices. The whole argument between them before, in and after Davos (1929) raged around the status of philosophical anthropology: How do the spiritualisation of life and the enlivening of the spirit come about? This was not just the central question for philosophical anthropology founded by Max Scheler, but also in Wilhelm Dilthey's life philosophy, which was systematized by Georg Misch. Cassirer and Heidegger shared three shortcomings with respect to the Life-philosophical Anthropology. Neither had a philosophy of nature or a philosophy of sociaty or a philosophy of history. The insight into the unfathomability of humans (Misch) is given a political edge in Helmuth Plessner's book Power and Human Nature (1931). Elevating it to the principle of democratic equality with respect to the worth of all cultures one opens up the potential for a form of civil competitionThough Peter Gordon mentioned philosophical anthropology in his book Continental Divide, he has not yet realized how it works independently from Cassirer's and Heidegger's prejudices. The whole argument between them before, in and after Davos (1929) raged around the status of philosophical anthropology: How do the spiritualisation of life and the enlivening of the spirit come about? This was not just the central question for philosophical anthropology founded by Max Scheler, but also in Wilhelm Dilthey's life philosophy, which was systematized by Georg Misch. Cassirer and Heidegger shared three shortcomings with respect to the Life-philosophical Anthropology. Neither had a philosophy of nature or a philosophy of sociaty or a philosophy of history. The insight into the unfathomability of humans (Misch) is given a political edge in Helmuth Plessner's book Power and Human Nature (1931). Elevating it to the principle of democratic equality with respect to the worth of all cultures one opens up the potential for a form of civil competition that might supersede ethnocentric wars.show moreshow less

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Author details:Hans-Peter KrügerORCiDGND
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2014.981019
ISSN:0191-6599
ISSN:1873-541X
Title of parent work (English):History of European ideas
Publisher:Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Place of publishing:Abingdon
Publication type:Review
Language:English
Year of first publication:2015
Publication year:2015
Release date:2017/03/27
Tag:human life in nature, society, and history; philosophical anthropology, anthropological philosophy, unfathomability of humans
Volume:41
Issue:4
Number of pages:8
First page:432
Last Page:439
Organizational units:Philosophische Fakultät
Peer review:Referiert
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