INTERthesis (Jul 2009)

The historical nature of the human being

  • Carlos Alvarez Maia

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5007/1807-1384.2009v6n1p15
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 1
pp. 15 – 47

Abstract

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This work deals with the human condition under a historical perspective. The classical proposal of human being originated from the illuminist – rational substantialism conflicts with the historical thought, both in the phylogenetic instance of its anthropologic hominization which builds up the species, and in the ontogenetics of its humanization given by the living historicity of each biological individual in his/her human cycle. I think of the human being as an entity made in the symbolic instance of the language in his/her interactive practice between nature and society. Keywords: Historical constitution of the human being; The language and the human being; History and language.

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