On Individuum and the Supraindividual in the Main Anthropological Paradigms

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10.2991/assehr.k.200901.010How to use a DOI?

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absolute, anthropology, cosmos, human, identity, individual, nature, man, society, supraindividual

Abstract

Human is the primary question for us. It is only by answering this question that we can define the field of what we can or ought to do. The procedure we use implies formulating of the correlation between our individual self and the supraindividual. Various anthropologies propose different understanding of the supraindividual. We suggest grouping them into three main paradigms. In the first paradigm the supraindividual is dressed in clothes of mythological cosmos or metaphysical Absolute. The second paradigm considers nature in its physical meaning as the supraindividual limit our human identity is derived from. The third paradigm is called sociocentric and its supraindividual limit is society, its discoursive and institutional forms. The article studies these paradigms as main ideal types of anthropologies, the question of actual and potential limitlessness of the supraindividual limits in anthropological paradigms and the problem of the coexistence of different paradigms.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Philipp Tagirov
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/09/01
TI  - On Individuum and the Supraindividual in the Main Anthropological Paradigms
BT  - Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities - Philosophy of Being Human as the Core of Interdisciplinary Research (ICCESSH 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 44
EP  - 50
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200901.010
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200901.010
ID  - Tagirov2020
ER  -