Erich Rothacker
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Erich Rothacker was a German philosopher, a leading exponent of philosophical anthropology
Philosophical anthropology
Philosophical anthropology is a discipline dealing with questions of metaphysics and phenomenology of the human person, and interpersonal relationships. It is the attempt to unify disparate ways of understanding behaviour of humans as both creatures of their social environments and creators of...

. His first major work, Logik und Systematik der Geisteswissenschaften (Logic of the Human Sciences, 1920), presents the view that actual historical individuals, whose cognitive equipment is partially created by a specific cultural community while at the same time constantly modifying it, are the elements that constitute the subject of knowledge, rather than a timeless universal entity as it is represented by Descartes or Locke
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Literary works

  • Einleitung in die Geisteswissenschaften (1920)
  • Logik und Systematik der Geisteswissenschaften (Logic of the Human Sciences, 1920)
  • Die Schichten der Persönlichkeit, 1938
  • Mensch und Geschichte, 1944
  • Probleme der Kulturanthropologie (Problems of the Anthropology of Culture, 1948)

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