Self and other: remarks on human nature and human culture
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Lorenz, Kuno [1]
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[1] Saarland University
Saarland University
Regionalverband Saarbrücken, Alemania
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- Localización: Manuscrito: revista internacional de filosofía, ISSN 0100-6045, Vol. 25, Nº. 2, 2002 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Jul./Dez.), págs. 271-289
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Demarcation of nature from culture is based on the dialogical polarity of first and second person constitutive of human beings. By means of the ancient categories of doing (I-role, i.e., Self) and suffering (You-role, i.e., Other) it is possible to capture conceptually the process of self-education as comprising both individuation and socialization on the level of non-verbal activity (man as a social animal) as well as on the level of verbal activity (man as a rational animal). As a consequence, the clash between the two theories of the cultural process that govern our intellectual history – is it a process of progress or one of decline? – which is exhibited as the background feeding especially the present day controversy between communitarianism (being a version of romantic individualism) and liberalism (being a version of enlightened universalism) will be resolved.
