What is man?
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Author(s)
Setiya, Kieran
Date Issued
July 2017
Journal
Time Literary Supplement
Publisher
News UK
Citation
Setiya, Kieran. "What is man?" The Times Literary Supplement, July 26, 2017.
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Author's final manuscript
Abstract
If you were asked to explain philosophy to an anthropologist from Mars, you could do worse than begin with Kant’s three questions: What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? These questions define the project of philosophy in the Critique of Pure Reason and they have stood the test of time. It is perhaps more surprising that, in lectures published nineteen years later, Kant subsumes his questions under a fourth. In asking what we can know, what we should do, and what we may hope, he contends, we are asking: What is man? At bottom, all philosophy is anthropology.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
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https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/private/roger-scruton-human-nature/
