RUDN Journal of Philosophy (Mar 2012)
General Anthropology: Between Philosophy and Science
Abstract
The article seeks to define the grounds of general anthropology as a complex human science. The author considers the preconditions for the formation of general anthropology as a scientific discipline. Within the system of human sciences it occupies a specific place. General anthropology is a branch of anthropology which studies on the one hand, the theoretical problems of unity and diversity of the forms of human existence in the world, and on the other hand, the generic properties which emerge and change in the process of evolution.