Understanding Man as a Subject and a Person: A Wojtylan Personalistic Interpretation of the Human Being In Karol Wojtylas philosophy of the Human Person, he interprets man as not being solely as a rational animal. He offers instead an understanding of ... PEA Mara - 《Kritike An Online Jo...
However, not all of the concerns of philosophy points to defend man in his external and internal dimensions. In Karol Wojtylas philosophy of the Human Person, he interprets man as not being solely as a rational animal. He offers instead an understanding of man viewing his innerness as a ...
Scientifically, for a man to be human, he/she must posses the biological standard of having the human DNA. However, what I like to discuss here is not a male species itself, but man as a being that are identified to possess superior characteristic features such as rationality, consciousness...
“My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.” Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, bu...
Aristotle’s philosophy expressed the view, characteristic of classical philosophy, that man was a living being endowed with spirit and reason (a “rational soul” as opposed to a sensitive or vegetative soul) and with the capacity for social life. In Christianity, the biblical concept of man ...
An Essay on Man, philosophical essay written in heroic couplets of iambic pentameter by Alexander Pope, published in 1733–34. It was conceived as part of a larger work that Pope never completed. The poem consists of four epistles. The first epistle surv
Concerning man’s moral endowment, the classical world had no doctrine of “original sin” as such; Plato suggested (Laws, 792e) that man may possess a “fount of reason that is as yet uncurbed,” but it is still assumed that man, as a rational being, would ultimately perceive and seek...
humanistic learning, and individualism were already present in the late medieval period and became dominant in 15th- and 16th-century Italy concurrently with social and economic changes such as the secularization of daily life, the rise of a rational money-credit economy, and greatly increased social...
AnEssayonManis a poem published by Alexander Pope in 1734. It is a rationalistic effort to use philosophy in order to "vindicate the ways of God toman" (l.16)‚ a variation of John Milton’s claim in the opening lines of Paradise Lost‚ that he will "justify the ways of God to...
In a strange reversal, Western philosophy went back to life. Darwin, using economic theories, drew a nature in motion. Nietzsche saw in Darwinism a hidden truth and put life at the top of all values. We love the change, the becoming..., paradise is now the jungle, with its exuberance ...