For ages, humanity has been searching for the purpose/meaning of his existence. Through his nature, s/he has the ability to rationalize and reflect on his relationship with other beings in the environment where s/he has been living.

1. Introduction
For ages, humanity has been searching
for the purpose/meaning of his
existence. Through his nature, s/he has
the ability to rationalize and reflect on
his relationship with other beings in
the environment where s/he has been
living.

2. Philosophical Anthropology
 * Biologically classified
as: HOMO SAPIENS
The “Thinking Wo/Man/”
sapiens is the gerund
form of the Latin noun
sapientia which means
“wisdom”

3. To know, is to know that you
know nothing. That is the
meaning of true knowledge.
- Socrates
The unexamined life is not
worth living.
-Socrates
470 BC

4. Philosophical Anthropology
Thinkers from different ages viewed the human
being in various ways:
Homo politicus –
“Political Animal/Being”
-Aristotle (384 BC)
Homo viator
“Pilgrim Being”
-Gabriel Marcel
French philosopher
(7 December 1889 – 8 October 1973

5. Philosophical
Anthropology
 Homo homini lupus
“human is a wolf to [his/her fellow]
human."-Thomas Hobbes (15c) Plautus' Asinaria (195 BC)
 Homo festivus – “A celebrant”
– Harvey Cox
Philosopher and theologians (May 19, 1929)
We are by our nature creatures who
not only work and think, but who sing,
dance, pray, tell stories, and celebrate.
. . We are Homo Festivus.

6. Homo faber- “Human the
Creator”– Hannah Arendt
Homo mensura- “Human is the
measure of all things” - Protagoras
Humans as controlling the environment through tools,
referring to the ability of humans to control his destiny and
what surrounds him/her
that everything is relative to human
apprehension and evaluation, and that
there is no objective truth
German-American political theorist (20c)
pre-Socratic Greek philosopher (420BC)

7. Philosophical Anthropology
Seven Anthropological Constants
 A body, cosmos and
environment
 An Other
 Social and institutional
structures
 Culture and history
 Theory and Praxis
 A Transcendent or
utopian consciousness
 Synthesis of the 6
constants Edward Schillebeeckx
(Novemeber 12, 1914 – December
23, 2009),

8. Philosophical Anthropology
Human Person Adequately Considered
People are
embodied
spirits.
Fundamentally
Equal, yet
uniquely
individual.

9. Philosophical Anthropology
Human Person Adequately Considered
All humans
are historical
figures.
All humans
relate to
others.