Abstract:
The theoretical basis for the new philosophy was laid by the American philosopher James Joseph Dagenais (1923-1981), who came to the conclusion that philosophical anthropology is not a science, but a domain unto itself, and that a philosophy of man can only come about as a joint undertaking of all sciences, in which the object of study must be man himself. The final explanation of man lies outside all possible scientific views that have ever been formulated, because they lie within the origins of every branch of science, including the science of philosophy. It is the final ground on which the philosophies, of any nature whatsoever, can be practised implicitly or explicitly. The methods of a post-modern philosophical anthropology will have to be based on reflection, on the claim that it is possible to debate differences and contrasts on reasonable grounds, and on the individual responsibility for the decisions we all make for ourselves in respect of changes in body and mind. A post-modern version of Sartre’s creed: man is and always will be what he makes of himself. I have given philosophical anthropology a new concrete substance on the basis of the definition of Jim Dagenais: “a consistent overall vision of man and his world”, so that it can serve as the basis for philosophy and thus as the foundation for human life.
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I have given philosophical anthropology a new concrete substance on the basis of the definition of Jim Dagenais: “a consistent overall vision of man and his world”, so that it can serve as the basis for philosophy and thus as the foundation for human life.
com A new philosophy of man as the basis for a humanist ideology1, with its roots in America: its origins and where it now stands (James Joseph Dagenais (1923-1981) “The only claims which philosophy can make to leadership in the total enterprise of understanding man is its capacity to explicitate its own presuppositions… if the necessary presuppositions of a philosophy of man can be clarified and justified, its claim to be basic can be validated… The presuppositions of any philosophy, I maintain, involve a fundamental attitude towards myself, the other, and the world.
my Core Concepts, Relational (Absolute Freedom)) Humanism: a philosophy of man championed by Jaap van Praag (1911- 1981) and Reinout Bakker (1920 – 1987), both following the footsteps of Dagenais Jaap van Praag What Jim Dagenais put forward in his Models of Man had been expressed in broad lines in Jaap van Praag’s earlier inaugural speech on humanism as endowed professor of humanism and anthropology of humanism at Leiden University on behalf of the Socrates Foundation of the Dutch Humanist League in 1965:6 “We might perhaps best characterize humanism by pointing to the attitude of mind that precedes all theory and practice.