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(1) Having examined several phases or spheres of human existence, i.e. consciousness, experience, and spirit, and having analyzed their relation to man’s nature and position in the universe, it is now our task to deal with human nature more specifically.
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See: A. Portmann, Biologische Fragmente über den Menschen, Basel, 1951.
Compare: J. A. Bierens de Haan, Animal Psychology and its Problems, London, pp. 46, 88, 113, 144/145.
See: Paul Alsberg, Das Menschheitsrätsel. Versuch Einer Principiellen Lösung, Dresden, 1922, p. 424.
Compare also: Julian Huxley, The Uniqueness of Man, London, 1941, p. 4.
Compare on this: David Katz, Animals and Men, London, 1937, p. 235/236. Karl Lorentz put it: specialist in non-specialisation
Compare on this: David Katz, Animals and Men, London, 1937, p. 235/236. Karl Lorentz put it: specialist in non-specialisation.
Kurt Goldstein, The Organism, New York, N.Y. 1939, p. 503.
F. J. J. Buytendijk, Wesen und Sinn des Spiels, Berlin, 1933, p. 119/120.
Hegel held this view from his youth and throughout his philosophic development. See: Jenenser, Realphilosophie I, Leipzig, p. 195.
Martin Heidegger, Sein und Zeit, Halle a.d. S., 1923, pp. 251/2/6, 329, 330. On man’s position in the “Noosphere” compare: Julian Huxley: “Man’s Place and Role in Nature,” in: The Unity of Knowledge, edited by Lewis Leavy, Garden City, N.Y., 1955, p. 79. Huxley took the expression from: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Le Phénomène humain, Paris, 1955, pp. 211 ff.
Martin Heidegger, Sein und Zeit, Halle a.d. S., 1923, pp. 251/2/6, 329, 330. On man’s position in the “Noosphere” compare: Julian Huxley: “Man’s Place and Role in Nature,” in: The Unity of Knowledge, edited by Lewis Leavy, Garden City, N.Y., 1955, p. 79. Huxley took the expression from: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Le Phénomène humain, Paris, 1955, pp. 211 ff.
Martin Heidegger, Sein und Zeit, Halle a.d. S., 1923, pp. 251/2/6, 329, 330. On man’s position in the “Noosphere” compare: Julian Huxley: “Man’s Place and Role in Nature,” in: The Unity of Knowledge, edited by Lewis Leavy, Garden City, N.Y., 1955, p. 79. Huxley took the expression from: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Le Phénomène humain, Paris, 1955, pp. 211 ff.
Martin Heidegger, Sein und Zeit, Halle a.d. S., 1923, pp. 251/2/6, 329, 330. On man’s position in the “Noosphere” compare: Julian Huxley: “Man’s Place and Role in Nature,” in: The Unity of Knowledge, edited by Lewis Leavy, Garden City, N.Y., 1955, p. 79. Huxley took the expression from: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Le Phénomène humain, Paris, 1955, pp. 211 ff.
Compare the present author’s Between Past and Present, New Haven, Conn., 1958, passim.
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Rotenstreich, N. (1963). On Human Nature. In: Spirit and Man. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3614-6_4
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