La posibilidad del humanismo (después de Heidegger)

Abstract

The thesis defended in this article is that Martin Heidegger’s “ontological difference” disguises an anti-humanist nihilism, which eliminates philosophical anthropology as a science. Thus we are justified in going beyond Heidegger, in order to recover the notion of subjectivity proposed by Edmund Husserl, the founder of phenomenology, and by Max Scheler, the founder of philosophical anthropology. These thinkers show that the subject occupies a privileged place in the totality of the real, as that in which the “appearing” (“manifestation”) of being is produced. This permits the construction of a philosophical anthropology without abandoning humanism, which has been the outstanding characteristic of Western culture.