Anthropology and philosophy
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https://doi.org/10.47854/dxgz2m94Keywords:
Methodology, Epistemology, History of Philosophy, History of Anthropology, Ontology, ComparaisonAbstract
The system of relations between philosophy and anthropology is structured by four relationships: subordination of anthropology to a metaphysical principle vs. epistemological exclusion of philosophy according to an empirical principle; integration of a methodological means of anthropology into a new philosophical specialty vs. anthropological objectification of metaphysics as a new object of study.
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