Man and Culture

Abstract

In the preceding chapters we have covered many different fields of philosophy. But before bringing this introductory text book to a close there is one further branch of the subject that deserves some discussion, not least because it has been relatively neglected by professional philosophers working in the so-called Anglo-American tradition. We are referring here to what is usually called Philosophical Anthropology, which is associated particularly with such thinkers (all German) as W. Dilthey, M. Scheler, H. Plessner, A. Gehlen, and E. Cassirer.