Going back to basics: philosophical anthropology and the metaphysics of agency

Smith, Simon (2011) Going back to basics: philosophical anthropology and the metaphysics of agency Appraisal, 8 (4). pp. 43-47.

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Abstract

This paper concerns two names not commonly associated: Austin Farrer and Ludwig Feuerbach. For these two very different thinkers person-concepts offered a metaphysical vision. That vision represents a critical return to religious praxis. Philosophically, the closed categories of scholastic ontology are exchanged for a concrete theory of persons, one that predicates self-hood on social premises. This insight enabled Farrer and Feuerbach to overcome the dualism underpinning classical rationalism. Moreover, by realigning the terms of that dualism within a framework of human action, they returned metaphysics to its origins in the personal images needed to conceive Go

Item Type:	Article
Divisions :	Library and Learning Support
Authors :	Name Email ORCID Smith, Simon Simon.smith@surrey.ac.uk
Date :	2011
Copyright Disclaimer :	© The Author(s) 2011
Uncontrolled Keywords :	Farrer, Feuerbach; empirical mandate; species being; personal analogy
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Date Deposited :	25 Jul 2017 10:59
Last Modified :	06 Jul 2019 05:24
URI:	http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/id/eprint/841746

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