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La questione dell’antropologia nell’analisi fenomenologica
Costa, Vincenzo
2010
Abstract
The main task of a phenomenological approach to anthropology is that of clarifying its
main concepts through an analysis of experience. Focusing on appearance rather than on
introspective analysis, phenomenology is based upon a “givenness” which is independent
of any interpretation. Firstly, one should recognize that the intentional relation to the
world essentially differs in the cases of humans and animals. Animals don’t understand
any meaning: even the simplest human feeling is specifically different, since man is a
conscious being, who is able to interpret it. The “world” is the possibility condition of any
object and, as such, the origin of human understanding. Phenomenologists criticise other
approaches, such as Cohen’s Neokantianism: according to Heidegger, the self-relationship
of a subject is the source of his responsibility. An agent’s identity requires a totality of
possibilities, i.e. a “world”. Accordingly, as Patočka noticed, animals neither act, nor do
have a self. Human language has a fundamental role, because it allows the subject to take
a certain distance from himself and then, properly speaking, to act.
Series
Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics
XII (2010) 2
Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Vincenzo Costa, "La questione dell’antropologia nell’analisi fenomenologica", in: Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics, XII (2010) 2, pp. 137-163.
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it
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