A Meta-Anthropology Avant la Lettre in the thought of Max Scheler, Vladimir Soloviev and Nikolai Berdyaev

Authors

  • Catalina Elena Dobre Universidad Anáhuac México

Keywords:

meta-anthropogy, metaphisics, anthropology, God-Manhood, person, God

Abstract

 I am interested in highlighting that meta-anthropology is a response to the crisis of metaphysics in the XX centuries and it has been developed avant la lettre in the philosophical proposal of Max Scheler, Vladimir Soloviov, and Nikolai Berdyaev.
Uniting these thinkers through this axis of meta-anthropology is an attempt that starts from the idea that the work of the three was to understand that neither anthropology, nor metaphysics alone represent viable answers to the challenges that human beings will face in the future. The three were ahead of their time through this idea, creating
original thoughts. Although it was Max Scheler who proposed a metaphysics of the human being (meta-anthropology) to confront the crisis of metaphysics —Soloviov offers the elements to understand this concept—, it is Berdyaev who develops this idea, thus showing an original and creative way of uniting two tendencies, Western
and Eastern, of philosophical thought.

Author Biography

Catalina Elena Dobre, Universidad Anáhuac México

Ph.D. in Philosophy from “Alexandru I. Cuza” University, Iași, Romania (2004), and Bachelor’s degrees in Philosophy and History from “Dunărea de Jos” University, Galați, Romania. She is a professor and researcher, a Level II member of Mexico’s National System of Researchers (SNI). She serves as Director of the Revista Internacional Estudios Kierkegaardianos (Mexico), is a member of the Ibero-American Society for Kierkegaard Studies, and part of the International Advisory Board of the Hong Kierkegaard Library (HKL), Northfield, Minnesota, USA. Her specialization is the philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard, but her work also addresses anthropological, ethical, and cultural topics. She is the author of several sole-authored books, as well as nationally and internationally edited and coordinated volumes. In addition, she has published numerous research articles in national and international journals. She is currently conducting postdoctoral research at the School of Humanities and Education at Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico).

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