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'''Philosophical anthropology''', sometimes called '''anthropological philosophy''',<ref>Fikentscher (2004) [https://books.google.com/books?id=h8PxF5BvtIAC&pg=PA74 pp.74, 89]</ref><ref>Cassirer (1944)</ref> is a discipline dealing with questions of [[Philosophy:Metaphysics|metaphysics]] and [[Philosophy:Phenomenology|phenomenology]] of the human person.<ref name="abc">{{cite journal |last1=Medzhidova |first1=Nargiz |title=Comparative analysis of modern philosophical and anthropological concepts |journal=Metafizika Journal |year=2022 |language=ru |date=2022-12-15 |volume=5 |issue=4 |pages=22–37 |url=https://metafizikajurnali.az/storage/images/site/files/Metafizika-20/Metafizika.Vol.5%2CNo.4%2CSerial.20%2Cpp.22-37.pdf |issn=2616-6879 |eissn=2617-751X |oclc=1117709579 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230128153242/https://metafizikajurnali.az/storage/images/site/files/Metafizika-20/Metafizika.Vol.5%2CNo.4%2CSerial.20%2Cpp.22-37.pdf |archive-date=2023-01-28 |access-date=2022-12-15}}</ref>

Philosophical anthropology is distinct from Philosophy of Anthropology, the study of the philosophical conceptions underlying anthropological work.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://iep.utm.edu/philosophy-of-anthropology/ | title=Anthropology, the Philosophy of &#124; Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy }}</ref> 

==History==
[[Biography:Plato|Plato]] identified the human [[Philosophy:Essence|essence]] with the [[Philosophy:Soul|soul]], affiriming that the material body is its prison from which the soul yearns for to be liberated because it wants to see, know and contemplate the pure [[Philosophy:Hyperuranion|hyperuranic]] ideas. According to the ''Phaedrus'', after death, souls transmigrate from a body to another. Therefore Plato introduced an irreducible [[Philosophy:Mind–body dualism|mind–body dualism]].

[[Biography:Aristotle|Aristotle]] defined the man as the union of two [[Philosophy:Substance theory|substances]], the body and the soul, within the socalled theory of [[Philosophy:Hylomorphism|hylomorphism]]. Man is a type of animal with a specific characteristic that makes him superior than any other living entity: it is the rational soul. The soul is not something of extraneous to the body, but it is the principle that organizes, structures, gives life and [[Philosophy:Substantial form#Aristotelian forms|form]] to the body's matter. The Aristotelian soul's conception is described in the threaty ''[[Philosophy:On the Soul|On the Soul]]'' from a theoretical point of view, and in the ''Politics'' and ''Nicomachean Ethics'' from a practical one.<ref name="abc"/>

The Christian thought developed the concept of ''[[Astronomy:Creatio ex nihilo|creatio ex nihilo]]'' according to which all what exists is a [[Philosophy:Contingency|contingent]] creature of God, including matter. The Platonic ''[[Philosophy:Khôra|khôra]]'' ended to be a region out of the [[Religion:Logos (Christianity)|Logos]]' power.

Time started to be conceived within a linear and not yet a cyclic [[Philosophy:Becoming|becoming]].

Christianity also developed the notion of [[Philosophy:Person|person]] in order to explain the Most Holy Trinity and the co-existence of the [[Religion:Dyophysitism|human and divine nature]] (essence) in the unique person of Christ. 

===Ancient Christian writers: Augustine of Hippo===
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[[Biography:Augustine of Hippo|Augustine of Hippo]] was one of the first Christian ancient Latin authors with a very clear anthropological vision,{{Request quotation |date= February 2012}} although it is not clear if he had any influence on [[Biography:Max Scheler|Max Scheler]], the founder of philosophical anthropology as an independent discipline, nor on any of the major philosophers that followed him. Augustine has been cited by Husserl and Heidegger as one of the early writers to inquire on time-consciousness and the role of ''seeing'' in the feeling of "Being-in-the-world".<ref>Husserl, Edmund. ''Phenomenology of Internal Time-Consciousness.'' Tr. James S. Churchill. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1964, 21.</ref><ref>Heidegger, ''Being and Time'' Trs. Macquarrie & Robinson. New York: Harpers, 1964. 171. Articulating on how "Being-in-the-world" is described through thinking about ''seeing'': "The remarkable priority of 'seeing' was noticed particularly by Augustine, in connection with his Interpretation of ''concupiscentia''." Heidegger, quoting the ''Confessions'': "Seeing belongs properly to the eyes. But we even use this word 'seeing' for the other senses when we devote them to cognizing...  We not only say, 'See how that shines', ... 'but we even say, 'See how that sounds'".</ref>

Augustine saw the human being as a perfect unity of two substances: soul and body.<ref>Gianni (1965), pp. 148–49.</ref> He was much closer in this anthropological view to [[Biography:Aristotle|Aristotle]] than to [[Biography:Plato|Plato]].<ref>Hendrics (1954), p. 291.</ref><ref name=MAS>Massuti, p.98.</ref> In his late treatise On Care to Be Had for the Dead sec. 5 (420 AD) he insisted that the body is essential part of the human person:
{{quotation |In no wise are the bodies themselves to be spurned. (...) For these pertain not to ornament or aid which is applied from without, but to the very nature of man.<ref>[[Biography:Augustine of Hippo|Augustine of Hippo]], ''De cura pro mortuis gerenda'' CSEL 41, 627 [13–22]; PL 40, 595: ''Nullo modo ipsa spernenda sunt corpora. (...) Haec enim non-ad ornamentum vel adiutorium, quod adhibetur extrinsecus, sed ad ipsam naturam hominis pertinent''; ''Contra Faustum'', 22.27; PL 44,418.</ref>}}
Augustine's favourite figure to describe ''body-soul'' unity is marriage: ''caro tua, coniux tua – your body is your wife''.<ref>[[Biography:Augustine of Hippo|Augustine of Hippo]], ''Enarrationes in psalmos'', 143, 6; CCL 40, 2077 [46] – 2078 [74]); ''De utilitate ieiunii'', 4, 4–5; CCL 46, 234–35.</ref> Initially, the two elements were in perfect harmony. After the [[Biography:Augustine of Hippo#Original sin|fall of humanity]] they are now experiencing dramatic combat between one another.

They are two categorically different things: the body is a three-dimensional object composed of the four elements, whereas the soul has no spatial dimensions.<ref>[[Biography:Augustine of Hippo|Augustine of Hippo]], ''De quantitate animae'' 1.2; 5.9</ref> Soul is a kind of substance, participating in reason, fit for ruling the body.<ref>[[Biography:Augustine of Hippo|Augustine of Hippo]], ''De quantitate animae'' 13.12: ''Substantia quaedam rationis particeps, regendo corpori accomodata''.</ref> Augustine was not preoccupied, as Plato and Descartes were, with going too much into detail in his efforts to explain the [[Philosophy:Metaphysics|metaphysics]] of the soul-body union. It sufficed for him to admit that they were metaphysically distinct. To be a human is to be a composite of soul and body, and that the soul is superior to the body. The latter statement is grounded in his [[Hierarchical classification|hierarchical classification]] of things into those that merely exist, those that exist and live, and those that exist, live, and have intelligence or reason.<ref>''On the free will'' (''De libero arbitrio'') 2.3.7–6.13</ref><ref>Mann, p. 141–142</ref>

According to N. Blasquez, Augustine's dualism of substances of the body and soul doesn't stop him from seeing the unity of body and soul as a substance itself.<ref name=MAS/><ref>''El concepto del substantia segun san Agustin'', pp. 305–350.</ref> Following Aristotle and other ancient philosophers, he defined man as a ''rational mortal animal'' – ''animal rationale mortale''.<ref>''De ordine'', II, 11.31; CCL 29, 124 [18]; PL 32,1009; De quantitate animae, 25, 47–49; CSEL 89, 190–194; PL 32, 1062–1063</ref><ref>Couturier (1954), p. 543</ref> Augustine also believed in the otherworldly Life of the soul and in the final resurrection of the flesh.

===Modern period===
Philosophical anthropology as a kind of thought, before it was founded as a distinct philosophical discipline in the 1920s, emerged as post-medieval thought striving for emancipation from Christian religion and Aristotelic tradition.<ref name="Apostolopoulou1992p49">Apostolopoulou, ''Georgia The Problem of Religion in Helmuth Plessner's Philosophical Anthropology'', in Reimer, A. James and Siebert, Rudolf J. (1992) [https://books.google.com/books?id=BC8RAQAAIAAJ ''The Influence of the Frankfurt school on contemporary theology: critical theory and the future of religion''], pp.42–66. Quotation from p.49: {{quotation|Philosophical anthropology is a kind of thought arising in times of crisis. The main anthropologists, Max Scheler and Helmuth Plessner, share the same opinion [that it] has appeared as a consequence of the shaking of the Middle Age's order, the roots of which were Greek tradition and Christian religion.}}</ref> The origin of this liberation, characteristic of [[Philosophy:Modernity|modernity]], has been the Cartesian skepticism formulated by Descartes in the first two of his ''Meditations on First Philosophy'' (1641).

[[Biography:Immanuel Kant|Immanuel Kant]] (1724–1804) taught the first lectures on anthropology in the European academic world. He specifically developed a conception of ''pragmatic anthropology'', according to which the human being is studied as a free agent. At the same time, he conceived of his anthropology as an empirical, not a strictly philosophical discipline.<ref>Thomas Sturm, ''Kant und die Wissenschaften vom Menschen'' (Paderborn: Mentis, 2009).</ref> Both his philosophical and his anthropological work has been one of the influences in the field during the 19th and 20th century.<ref name="Grolier 1981p768">Grolier (1981) [https://books.google.com/books?id=SesZAAAAMAAJ ''The Encyclopedia Americana, Volume 21''] p. 768</ref><ref name="Buber1943PM"/> After Kant, [[Biography:Ludwig Feuerbach|Ludwig Feuerbach]] is sometimes considered the next most important influence and founder of anthropological philosophy.<ref>Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Poolla Tirupati Raju (1966) [https://books.google.com/books?id=3cYtAAAAYAAJ ''The concept of man: a study in comparative philosophy''] p. 490 {{quotation|Feuerbach interpreted philosophical anthropologism as the summary of the entire previous development of philosophical thought. Feuerbach was thus the father of the comprehensive system of anthropological philosophy.}}</ref><ref>Judith Deutsch Kornblatt, Richard F. Gustafson (1996) ''Russian religious thought'' [https://books.google.com/books?id=AqwGUM4tFoEC&pg=PA140 p. 140] quotation: {{quotation|In modern thought, according to Buber, Feuerbach was the most important contributor to philosophical anthropology, next to Kant, because he posited Man as the exclusive object of philosophy...}}</ref>

During the 19th century, an important contribution came from post-Kantian German idealists like [[Biography:Johann Gottlieb Fichte|Fichte]], [[Biography:Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling|Schelling]] and Hegel,<ref name="Grolier 1981p768"/> as well from [[Biography:Søren Kierkegaard|Søren Kierkegaard]].<ref>TURNBULL, Jamie. Kierkegaard and the Limits of Philosophical Anthropology. A Companion to Kierkegaard, p. 468-479, 2015.</ref>

=== Philosophical anthropology as independent discipline ===
Since its development in the 1920s, in the milieu of Germany Weimar culture, philosophical anthropology has been turned into a philosophical discipline, competing with the other traditional sub-disciplines of philosophy such as [[Philosophy:Epistemology|epistemology]], [[Philosophy:Ethics|ethics]], [[Philosophy:Metaphysics|metaphysics]], [[Logic|logic]], and [[Social:Aesthetics|aesthetics]].<ref>Fischer (2006) [https://books.google.com/books?id=NfTwdJYsx-AC&pg=PA64 p.64], quotation: {{quotation|Ende der 1920er Jahre prominent geworden, weil damals aus verschiedenen Denkrich- tungen und Motiven die Frage nach dem Menschen in die Mitte der philosophischen Problematik rückte. Die philosophische Anthropologie wurde so zu einer neuen Disziplin in der Philosophie neben den eingeführten Subdisziplinen der Erkenntnistheorie, der Ethik, der Metaphysik, der Ästhetik}}</ref> It is the attempt to unify disparate ways of understanding behaviour of humans as both creatures of their [[Social:Social environment|social environment]]s and creators of their own values. Although the majority of philosophers throughout the [[Philosophy:History of philosophy|history of philosophy]] can be said to have a distinctive "[[Social:Anthropology|anthropology]]" that undergirds their thought, philosophical anthropology itself, as a ''specific discipline'' in philosophy, arose within the later modern period as an outgrowth from developing methods in philosophy, such as phenomenology and [[Philosophy:Existentialism|existentialism]]. The former, which draws its energy from methodical reflection on human experience (first person perspective) as from the philosopher's own personal experience, naturally aided the emergence of philosophical explorations of human nature and the [[Philosophy:Human condition|human condition]].

===1920s Germany===
[[Biography:Max Scheler|Max Scheler]], from 1900 until 1920 had been a follower of Husserl's phenomenology, the hegemonic form of philosophy in Germany at the time. Scheler sought to apply Husserl's phenomenological approach to different topics. From 1920 Scheler laid the foundation for philosophical anthropology as a philosophical discipline, competing with phenomenology and other philosophic disciplines. Husserl and [[Biography:Martin Heidegger|Martin Heidegger]] (1889–1976), were the two most authoritative philosophers in Germany at the time, and their criticism to philosophical anthropology and Scheler have had a major impact on the discipline.

Scheler defined the human being not so much as a "[[Philosophy:Rationality|rational]] animal" (as has traditionally been the case since [[Biography:Aristotle|Aristotle]]) but essentially as a "loving being". He breaks down the traditional [[Philosophy:Hylomorphism|hylomorphic]] conception of the human person, and describes the personal being with a tripartite structure of [[Philosophy:Lived body|lived body]], [[Philosophy:Soul|soul]], and spirit. [[Philosophy:Love|Love]] and hatred are not psychological emotions, but [[Philosophy:Spirituality|spiritual]], [[Philosophy:Intention|intention]]al acts of the person, which he [[Categorization|categorises]] as "intentional feelings."{{Citation needed|date=February 2012}}{{clarify|date=July 2020}} Scheler based his philosophical anthropology in a Christian metaphysics of the spirit.<ref name= "Wilkoszewska2004p129">Wilkoszewska, Krystyna (2004) [https://books.google.com/books?id=hHY5Q4lgY4sC&pg=PA129 ''Deconstruction and reconstruction: the Central European Pragmatist Forum''], Volume 2, p.129</ref> [[Biography:Helmuth Plessner|Helmuth Plessner]] would later emancipate philosophical anthropology from Christianity.<ref name="Wilkoszewska2004p129" />

[[Biography:Helmuth Plessner|Helmuth Plessner]] and [[Biography:Arnold Gehlen|Arnold Gehlen]] have been influenced by Scheler, and they are the three major representatives of philosophical anthropology as a movement.

===From the 1940s===
[[Biography:Ernst Cassirer|Ernst Cassirer]], a neo-Kantian philosopher, was the most influential source for the definition and development of the field from the 1940s until the 1960s.<ref name= "Schilpp67p73">{{Citation | editor-last = Schilpp | year = 1967 | title = The philosophy of Martin Buber | page = 73 |quote=It was a neo-Kantian philosopher, Ernst Cassirer, who perhaps more than anyone else contributed to the definition and development of philosophical anthropology in recent decades. Particularly relevant here is Cassirer's conception of man as a symbolizing and mythologizing animal.}}</ref> Particularly influential has been Cassirer's description of man as a ''symbolic animal'',<ref name= "Schilpp67p73" /> which has been reprised in the 1960s by Gilbert Durand, scholar of [[Social:Symbolic anthropology|symbolic anthropology]] and the [[Social:Imaginary (sociology)|imaginary]].

In 1953, future pope Karol Wojtyla based his dissertation thesis on Max Scheler, limiting himself to the works Scheler wrote before rejecting Catholicism and the Judeo-Christian tradition in 1920. Wojtyla used Scheler as an example that phenomenology could be reconciled with Catholicism.<ref>{{Citation | first = Anna-Teresa | last = Tymieniecka | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=iGONF4dUwOwC | title = Phenomenology world-wide | page = 487| isbn = 9781402000669 | year = 2002 | publisher = Springer }}.</ref> Some authors have argued that Wojtyla influenced philosophical anthropology.<ref>{{Citation | first = Hans | last = Köchler |  title = The Phenomenology of Karol Wojtyla. On the Problem of the Phenomenological Foundation of Anthropology | journal = Philosophy and Phenomenological Research | volume = 42 | year = 1982 | issue = 3 | pages = 326–34| doi = 10.2307/2107489 | jstor = 2107489 }}.</ref>{{Efn | K. Wojtyla's anthropological works: {{cite book |title= Love and Responsibility|author=K. Wojtyla |year= 1993 | publisher= Ignatius Press | location= San Francisco| isbn= 0-89870-445-6}}; {{cite book |title= The Acting Person: A Contribution To Phenomenological Anthropology |author= K. Wojtyla |year=1979 | publisher= Springer | isbn= 90-277-0969-6}}}}{{Request quotation |date=February 2012}}

In the 20th century, other important contributors and influences to philosophical anthropology were [[Biography:Paul Häberlin|Paul Häberlin]] (1878–1960), [[Biography:Martin Buber|Martin Buber]] (1878–1965),<ref name="Buber1943PM">{{Citation | last = Buber | first = Martin |  year = 1943 | title = Das Problem des Menschen |trans-title=The Problem of Man | language = de}}.</ref> E.R. Dodds (1893–1979), [[Biography:Hans-Georg Gadamer|Hans-Georg Gadamer]] (1900–2002), [[Biography:Eric Voegelin|Eric Voegelin]] (1901–85), [[Biography:Hans Jonas|Hans Jonas]] (1903–93), [[Biography:Josef Pieper|Josef Pieper]] (1904–97), Hans-Eduard Hengstenberg (1904–98), [[Biography:Jean-Paul Sartre|Jean-Paul Sartre]] (1905–80), [[Biography:Joseph Maréchal|Joseph Maréchal]] (1878–1944), [[Biography:Maurice Merleau-Ponty|Maurice Merleau-Ponty]] (1908–61), Paul Ricoeur (1913–2005), [[Biography:René Girard|René Girard]] (1923–2015), [[Biography:Alasdair MacIntyre|Alasdair MacIntyre]] (1929–), [[Biography:Pierre Bourdieu|Pierre Bourdieu]] (1930–2002), Hans Blumenberg, [[Biography:Jacques Derrida|Jacques Derrida]] (1930–2004), [[Biography:Emerich Coreth|Emerich Coreth]] (1919–2006), [[Biography:Leonardo Polo|Leonardo Polo]] (1926–2013), and P. M. S. Hacker (1939- ).

==Anthropology of interpersonal relationships==
A large focus of philosophical anthropology is also interpersonal relationships, as an attempt to unify disparate ways of understanding the behaviour of humans as both creatures of their [[Social:Social environment|social environment]]s and creators of their own values.<ref name="abc">{{cite journal |last1=Medzhidova |first1=Nargiz |title=Comparative analysis of modern philosophical and anthropological concepts |journal=Metafizika Journal |year=2022 |language=ru |date=2022-12-15 |volume=5 |issue=4 |pages=22–37 |url=https://metafizikajurnali.az/storage/images/site/files/Metafizika-20/Metafizika.Vol.5%2CNo.4%2CSerial.20%2Cpp.22-37.pdf |issn=2616-6879 |eissn=2617-751X |oclc=1117709579 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230128153242/https://metafizikajurnali.az/storage/images/site/files/Metafizika-20/Metafizika.Vol.5%2CNo.4%2CSerial.20%2Cpp.22-37.pdf |archive-date=2023-01-28 |access-date=2022-12-15}}</ref> It analyses also the [[Philosophy:Ontology|ontology]] that is in play in human relationships – of which [[Philosophy:Intersubjectivity|intersubjectivity]] is a major theme. Intersubjectivity is the study of how two individuals, subjects, whose experiences and interpretations of the world are radically different understand and relate to each other.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}

Recently anthropology has begun to shift towards studies of intersubjectivity and other existential/phenomenological themes. Studies of language have also gained new prominence in philosophy and sociology due to language's close ties with the question of intersubjectivity.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}

===Michael D. Jackson's study of intersubjectivity===
The academic Michael D. Jackson is another important philosophical anthropologist. His research and fieldwork concentrate on existential themes of "being in the world" (''[[Philosophy:Dasein|Dasein]]'') as well as interpersonal relationships.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}} His methodology challenges traditional anthropology due to its focus on first-person experience. In his most well known book, ''Minima Ethnographica'' which focuses on intersubjectivity and interpersonal relationships, he draws upon his ethnographic fieldwork in order to explore existential theory.

In his latest book, ''Existential Anthropology'', he explores the notion of control, stating that humans anthropomorphize inanimate objects around them in order to enter into an interpersonal relationship with them. In this way humans are able to feel as if they have control over situations that they cannot control because rather than treating the object as an object, they treat it as if it is a rational being capable of understanding their feelings and language. Good examples are prayer to gods to alleviate drought or to help a sick person or cursing at a computer that has ceased to function.

===P. M. S. Hacker's Tetraology on Human Nature===

A foremost Wittgensteinian, P. M. S. Hacker has recently completed a tetralogy in philosophical anthropology: "The first was ''Human Nature: The Categorical Framework'' (2007), which provided the stage set.  The second was ''The Intellectual Powers: A Study of Human Nature'' (2013), which began the play with the presentation of the intellect and its courtiers.  The third ''The Passions: A Study of Human Nature'' (2017), which introduced the drama of the passions and the emotions.  The fourth and final volume, ''The Moral Powers: A Study of Human Nature'' (2020), turns to the moral powers and the will, to good and evil, to pleasure and happiness, to what gives meaning to our lives, and the place of death in our lives. 
This tetralogy constitutes a ''Summa Anthropologica'' in as much as it presents a systematic categorical overview of our thought and talk of human nature, ranging from substance, power, and causation to good and evil and the meaning of life.  A ''sine qua non'' of any philosophical investigation, according to Grice, is a synopsis of the relevant logico-linguistic grammar.  It is surely unreasonable that each generation should have to amass afresh these grammatical norms of conceptual exclusion, implication, compatibility, and contextual presupposition, as well as tense and person anomalies and asymmetries.  So via the tetralogy I have attempted to provide a compendium of usage of the pertinent categories in philosophical anthropology to assist others in their travels through these landscapes."

==See also==

* List of important publications in anthropology
* [[Philosophy:Antihumanism|Antihumanism]] (opposite)
* [[Biography:Ernst Tugendhat|Ernst Tugendhat]] (2007) ''Anthropologie statt Metaphysik''
* ''[[Philosophy:Introduction to Kant's Anthropology|Introduction to Kant's Anthropology]]''
* [[Biography:Martin Buber|Martin Buber]] 
* ''Philosophical Anthropology Info – names, books''

==Notes==
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===References===
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==Further reading==
* Joseph Agassi, ''Towards a Rational Philosophical Anthropology''. The Hague, 1977.
* Anicius Manlius Severinus [[Biography:Boethius|Boethius]], ''The Consolation of Philosophy'', Chicago: The Great Books foundation 1959.
* [[Biography:Martin Buber|Martin Buber]], ''I and Thou'', New York: Scribners 1970.
* [[Biography:Martin Buber|Martin Buber]], ''The Knowledge of Man: A Philosophy of the Interhuman'', New York: Harper&Row 1965.
* [[Biography:Martin Buber|Martin Buber]], ''Between Man and Man'', New York: Macmillan 1965.
* [[Biography:Albert Camus|Albert Camus]], ''The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt'', New York: Vintage Books 1956.
* [[Biography:Charles Darwin|Charles Darwin]], ''The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection'', Chicago – London: Encyclopædia Britannica 1952.
* Teilhard de Chardin, ''The Phenomenon of Man'', New York: Harper&Row 1965
* [[Biography:Jacques Derrida|Jacques Derrida]], ''l'Ecriture et la Difference''
* Joachim Fischer, ''Philosophische Anthropologie. Eine Denkrichtung des 20. Jahrhunderts''. Freiburg, 2008.
* [[Biography:Sigmund Freud|Sigmund Freud]], ''Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality'', New York: Basic Books 1975.
* [[Biography:Erich Fromm|Erich Fromm]], ''To Have or To Be'', New York: Harper&Row 1976.
* [[Biography:David Hume|David Hume]]'', A Treatise of Human Nature''
* [[Biography:Hans Jonas|Hans Jonas]], ''The Phenomenon of Life''. Chicago, 1966.
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