This paper reviews A.M. Lobok's monograph, The Anthropology of Myth. It was published in 1997 Ekaterinburg by the publishing house Bank Cultural Information, but is still little known scientific community and belongs to philosophical underground. has necessitated creation a review work present Myth wider readership. Despite an almost quarter-century gap between year publication present, reviewe...

Hans Blumenberg’s magisterial defense of modernity against the reproach of secularization, elaborated most extensively in The Legitimacy of the Modern Age (1966, 1974), develops both a distinctive method of philosophical history and the groundwork of a philosophical anthropology, predicated on the emergence of human self-assertion as theoretical curiosity. But as Blumenberg’s work attests more ...

PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY VOL. 155, NO. 3, SEPTEMBER 2011 1 This is partially supported by a Phillips Fund Grant from the American Philosophical Society (2007), and a University of Montana Small Grant (2007). I greatly appreciate James Boy for his kindness and for sharing his experience with the Blackfoot language. I am also grateful for Susie White Calf, who is no longe...

From the analytical point of view of Hegel's philosophical anthropology, in Kojève's interpretation, work is an existential structure through which the dual process of subjectification and socialization unfolds. For Hegel, however, this process is not taken for granted: its possibility is understood in terms of the culmination of man's conquest of humanity, taking as a point of departure the re...

Philosophical anthropology is concerned with assumptions about human nature, differential psychology with the empirical investigation of such belief-systems. A questionnaire comprised 64 questions concerning brain and consciousness, free will, evolution, meaning of life, belief in God, and theodicy problem. Data were gathered from 563 students of psychology at seven universities and from 233 st...

The philosophy of Martin Buber as a philosopher of dialogue is well known to philosophy, philosophy of religion, and philosophical anthropology. His thoughts and how they have been applied to human counseling and psychotherapy are however, less well known. This article presents an overview of some of the modern and postmodern therapists and analysts who have drawn from his philosophy important ...