Frederick A. Olafson
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Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego. Author of Heidegger and the Philosophy of Mind and others.
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Philosophical anthropology, discipline within philosophy that seeks to unify the several empirical investigations of human nature in an effort to understand individuals as both creatures of their environment and creators of their own values. In the 18th century, “anthropology” was the branch of…
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