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SENTENTIA. European Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
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Gurevich, P. S.
The phenomenon of spirit in philosophical understanding of man
// SENTENTIA. European Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences.
2013. № 1.
P. 4-842.
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Gurevich, P. S. The phenomenon of spirit in philosophical understanding of man
Abstract:
There is a widespread opinion that philosophical anthropology is
a field of knowledge about the origin, history and content of culture. This
statement is only partially true. Culture is demonstrative of a certain way
of being. Many anthropologists and cultural scientists do not set themselves
the task of finding out why man is as he is, what is his existential reality,
in which his determined originality is manifested. Reduction of the whole
problem of man to description of culture would mean disregard of the principal
side of the question: what determines the cultural essence of man?
The integrity of philosophical anthropology distinguishes it from other disciplines
that study man in one particular aspect. Philosophical anthropologists
wish to grasp, at least, the live wholeness of a person, his concrete «I».
Philosophical anthropology more decisively than, say, gestalt psychology
finds in man configurations and behaviours that are impossible to split and
put to the final analysis. Spirituality is undoubtedly among the basic human
existentials. The notion of «spirit» in philosophical anthropology has
a long and peculiar history. Since time immemorial, freedom, reflection,
spirit were considered to be man’s essential qualities. Spirit is man’s highest
ability permitting him to become a subject of meaning-setting, personal
self-determination, conscious transformation of reality. We, people, are the
present existence, consciousness in general and spirit, that is the ideasdriven
wholeness of comprehensible relationships in ourselves and in all
that we have created, done and thought.
Keywords:
philosophical anthropology, man, culture, human existentials, spirit, existence, meaning, wholeness, psyche, memory.
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