The Philosophical Problem of Human Identity

Philosophy and Culture 37 (3):7-20 (2010)
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Abstract

Modern and contemporary Western philosophy, anthropology, the prevalence of one kind of antinomy, the basic proposition. On the one hand science tells us that human beings are living on earth one of the many forms of life, the destiny of humanity is just one of many types of biological species. On the other hand, the general philosophy of the popular definition of who is telling us that the human superior, beyond all biological life forms. This philosophical anthropology advocates, according to the existence, humans and all other living there cutting: only in the material substrate on the biology of the organisms belonging to the existence of class. Behind the argument of this thesis is based on ontology of dualism: "and there" a body, but "is" an eternal soul, or a non-material "thought I" , a non-static, unnatural doctrine of "this in" . Descartes by Descartes and later forms of thinking, this is a fundamental anthropological theory of the main intellectual centers. On human beings of a special exception, is based on ontology terms by people "who can understanding" : one can only knowledge of God, who is only thinking of my , only exist in a living world ). This anthropology with a strong anti-Han Yun naturalistic epistemology, human nature and must avoid advocating scientific research, but only through unnatural methods to achieve the doctrine: for example, religious revelation, self-evident and automatic presentation of ideas or hermeneutic automatic note . In other words, a better understanding of humans, the cognitive consequences of a desert. This paper discusses the lies hope to find some way to contribute to research

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