The aim of this article is the reconstruction, analysis and presentation Henryk Elzenberg’s philosophy human being, with particular emphasis on his concept asceticism. philosophical anthropology based pessimistic evaluation reality, which itself founded negative nature. Human nature corrupt because primary will humanity, selfish self-seeking strives only for utilitarian values. overcoming pessi...

Purpose. This article reveals the importance of analysis theory generations to identify essential characteristics phenomenon youth. Theoretical basis this study is socio-philosophical anthropology, i.e. philosophical anthropology using certain methods sociological, socio-psychological and ethnological research, as well comprehension application these in special sciences. Originality. The author...

Many have argued that anthropology, as a four-field discipline, lacks intellectual coherence. Recent developments in the field of biotechnology and the possibility of producing chimeras with recognizable human characteristics make it necessary to think in terms of a new kind of “old” four-field holism. The production of a human/nonhuman chimera raises theoretical questions about the nature of t...

Martin Paleček and Mark Risjord have recently put forward a critical evaluation of the ontological turn in anthropological theory. According to this philosophically informed theory of ethnographic practice, certain insights of twentieth-century analytic philosophy should play a part in the methodological debates concerning anthropological fieldwork: most importantly, the denial of representatio...

By drawing from semiology, epistemology and philosophical hermeneutics, we discuss the way CSCW models data, situation and activity—information representation. We point out similarities between discourse in hermeneutics and in the anthropology and sociology that predominates in CSCW, and propose that a hermeneutic perspective offers a unifying view on the social science and computer science wit...

Purpose. The article is an explication of the features anthropological teaching Peter Hacker in context analytical philosophy with consideration to European within framework Oxford School ordinary language philosophy. theoretical basis research determined by latest English-language philosophical tradition, rethinking place problems system knowledge. Originality. Referring primary sources, we re...

Contemporary medical anthropology has peculiar problems. Like its cognate subfields, it is by necessity a scavenger of interpretive tools from diverse intellectual traditions. The art of producing an analytically adequate and intellectually honest piece of ethnography increasingly requires fluency in a plethora of historical, linguistic, philosophical, and economic theories and methodologies; m...