The Centered Reality. Helmuth Plessner’s Anti-naturalistic Account

• Authors: Pugliese Alice
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper discusses the criticism of naturalism based on the irreducibility of first-person-perspective facts. This critique considers naturalism insufficient since it propos-es the view of reality as a centerless dimension. However, simply reintegrating subjec-tive facts into a naturalistic view of reality we eventually produce a split situation in which conscious and self-conscious forms of life require a special consideration, thus appearing as separated from the whole of reality. In order to overcome what turns out to be a dualistic interpretation of reality, this paper considers Helmuth Plessner’s non-naturalistic approach. It elaborates the notion of positionality and aspectivity as charac-teristics of all natural forms of life, thus leading to the consideration of reality an essen-tially centered dimension and of humans as part of nature.

Keywords

EN

naturalism; philosophical anthropology; Helmuth Plessner; positionality

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk; Fundacja Filozofia Na Rzecz Dialogu
• Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
• Year: 2016
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 95-108

Contributors

author

Pugliese Alice

• University of Palermo, Department of Humanities, Viale delle Scienze – Edificio 12, 90128 Palermo, Italy