El hombre entre dos hermenéuticas: Introducción: Ciencias y Metafísica
After the change of course brought on by Positivism, explicit in A. Comte's "law of the three states", which was deepened thereafter in the Neo-Kantian crisis of metaphysics, and professed as a "monistic creed" in the life of many a scientist, philosophical anthropology loos...
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| Language: | Spanish |
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1992
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Gregorianum
Year: 1992, Volume: 73, Issue: 3, Pages: 523-539 |
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| Summary: | After the change of course brought on by Positivism, explicit in A. Comte's "law of the three states", which was deepened thereafter in the Neo-Kantian crisis of metaphysics, and professed as a "monistic creed" in the life of many a scientist, philosophical anthropology looses its background of the First Causes in the hands of the Sciences, seen as the only hermeneutical criterion applicable to man. But is this reductionism of knowledge valid? Does it really imply progress for the human mind? Well before Comte, Thomas Aquinas had discovered a "law of the three states" (cfr. De Pot. q.3 a.5). His hermeneutics, however, elaborated from a standpoint more universal and open, are quite different from Comte's. Science is here seen as the fruitful substratum of a superior type of knowledge, which flourishes in Metaphysics and Theology. They are complementary types of knowledge, not mutually exclusive. After sketching the broad outlines of metaphysical anthropology with its two integrative moments of "being man" ("exstatical" aspect, formal, essential) and "becoming man" (dynamic aspect, existential, historical), and showing in the "human program" not only the psycho-physical genetic codes (the direct interest of Bioanthropology) but also the spiritual genetic codes (the direct interest of an Anthropological Metaphysics), in which man blossoms as «capable of God», the article presages a more integrative and frank dialogue between Philosophy and the Sciences: "Sana scientia in sana philosophia", for the good of mankind. |
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