Découvertes médicales et philosophie de la nature humaine (XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles)

Buchenau, Stéfanie; Crignon, Claire; Gaille, Marie; Kolesnik-Antoine, Delphine; Rey, Anne-Lise

doi:10.1007/s11873-013-0237-4

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“…The disciplinary history of anthropology testifies to the deep affinities and thematic overlaps between philosophy and medicine (cf. Gaille 2011, Buchenau et al 2013). Philosophers and doctors share a common object and a common vocation insofar as both their disciplines are "humanities" or "human sciences": they not only both pursue a common practical and "therapeutic" ambition, which is to maintain humans in good health and to administer them the regimen best suited to them, but they also share a common theoretical aim to know human beings in their physical and moral dimensions.…”

Section: Anthropology Mid-way Between Medicine and Philosophymentioning

confidence: 99%

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2017

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A distinctive feature of Herder’s attempt to develop an anthropology is the crucial role played by aesthetics. Anthropology is a naturalized form of understanding human motivations and behaviour, replacing traditional religious and humanist forms of understanding. It is naturalist in the sense of opening up human motivations and behaviour to empirical evidence, and deciding questions on this basis. Naturalism here is not a reduction to the physical sciences, but rather to sources of evidence that can be gleaned from comparative areas such as history, geography, and, more problematically, anatomy. That aesthetics could play a role in such an exercise may seem somewhat puzzling at first, but for Herder and his German contemporaries, an aesthetic sensibility was central to what it was to be a human being, just as, for his predecessors, a religious sensibility was crucial to what it was to be a human being.

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Section: Anthropology Mid-way Between Medicine and Philosophymentioning

confidence: 99%