The Anthropocene and the Problem of Anthropological Constants

• Authors: Katarína Podušelová

Abstracts

EN

In the humanities and social sciences, the concept of the Anthropocene has become the starting point for theoretical analyses of the immediate relationship between the environmental preconditions for the existence of civilization and the human actions whose consequences threaten these preconditions. From the philosophical-anthropological point of view, reflections on the concepts of the Anthropocene focus not only on a critical analysis of the claims about human that originate in the natural sciences but also on an understanding of the overall role of humanity in the new geological-climatic regime of the Earth. The primary purpose of this paper is to highlight two-pronged problem areas, which include both the problem of anthropological constants as specific ways of makingstatements about humans and the problem of using them to reflect on the conceptual system of the Anthropocene. In particular, this paper emphasizes hypotheses and claims from the Anthropocene concept of Earth System Science that point to humans becoming a geobiophysical force in the Anthropocene. Three areas in which anthropological constants could be subsequently subjected to a deeper analysis are proposed.

Keywords

PL

Anthropocene; anthropological constants; Homo faber; Homo oeconomicus; Homo industrialis

EN

Anthropocene; anthropological constants; Homo faber; Homo oeconomicus; Homo industrialis

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie
• Journal: Studia Philosophiae Christianae
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 59
• Issue: 1

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Katarína Podušelová

• Slovenská Akadémia Vied -

• https://orcid.org/0000000169413995

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Identifiers

DOI

10.21697/spch.2023.59.A.05

Biblioteka Nauki

22764509