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“Philosophy and Anthropology”
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SYSNO ASEP 0579607 Document Type A - Abstract R&D Document Type O - Ostatní Title “Philosophy and Anthropology” Author(s) Feinberg, Joseph Grim (FLU-F) RID, ORCID, SAI Action 6. bienální konference CASA 2021 (Česká asociace pro sociální antropologii) Event date 17.04.2021 - 18.04.2021 VEvent location Online Country CZ - Czech Republic Event type EUR Language eng - English Keywords Anthropological method ; philosophical anthropology ; history of philosophy ; history of anthropology ; alternative rationalities ; humanism ; universalism Subject RIV AC - Archeology, Anthropology, Ethnology OECD category Antropology, ethnology Institutional support FLU-F - RVO:67985955 Annotation There is rich tradition of interaction between anthropology and philosophy. This article reflects on the character of this interaction, arguing that it is not a case of two separate, parallel traditions that mutually influence one another, but rather of two interconnected disciplines that have become necessary to one another’s development. Both disciplines aim at a universalistic understanding of the human being, but each does so by different means. Philosophy allows the autonomous work of reason to criticize established categories of thought, positing new concepts of the human: but it risks becoming too autonomous – too self-sufficient and self-referential – thus allowing its categories to become resistant to criticism, established as marks of “civilization” that distinguish philosophical ideas from ideas that are non-philosophical, irrational, and barbarous. Anthropology, for its part, reveals the limitations of premature universalism, pointing to forms of reason excluded from dominant systems of thought. Philosophy can turn to anthropology in order to expand and bring in new concepts. Anthropology can turn to philosophy in order recall its original impulse toward conceptualizing the universal, in an expansive form that I call “barbarous universalism”. Workplace Institute of Philosophy Contact Chlumská Simona, chlumska@flu.cas.cz ; Tichá Zuzana, asep@flu.cas.cz Tel: 221 183 360 Year of Publishing 2024
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