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There are two distinct ways of understanding anthropological difference, that is, the fundamental mental difference between humans and animals. According to the additive view, the distinguishing trait (e.g. reason) is added to pre-existing cognitive capacities (e.g. perception) and conative abilities (e.g. desire). According to the transformative view, by contrast, the distinguishing characteristic fundamentally reshapes these […]

FINES HOMINIS LECTURE “TOWARDS A NEW FOUNDATION FOR PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY”, to be held ad University of Potsdam (April 18, 2024 16-18h – Universität Potsdam, Haus 11, Raum 0.09) Philosophical Anthropology, sometimes confused with a theoretical humanism both by its supporters and adversaries, has been torn in the 20th century between naturalistic and historicist tendencies. It […]

The FINES HOMINIS LECTURE 2022 will be held by Prof. Andrea Kern (Leipzig). The lecture addresses the question what it means to lead the life of an “I”. Following Hegel, it develops a conception of a self-conscious form of life according to which the reality of such a form of life is at stake in every moment of thinking. This is what it means that the concept of the human being is not the concept of something finite, but of something “absolute”.