Projects / Programmes
Metaphysics and anthropology of ethics
| Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
| 6.10.00 |
Humanities |
Philosophy |
|
| Code |
Science |
Field |
| H120 |
Humanities |
Systematic philosophy, ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, epistemology, ideology |
| H125 |
Humanities |
Philosophical anthropology |
Ontology, metaphysics, anthropology, ethics
Researchers (2)
| no. |
Code |
Name and surname |
Research area |
Role |
Period |
No. of publicationsNo. of publications |
| 1. |
11483 |
PhD Borut Ošlaj |
Humanities |
Researcher |
2002 - 2004 |
250 |
| 2. |
06303 |
PhD Cvetka Toth |
Philosophy |
Head |
2002 - 2004 |
1,063 |
Organisations (1)
Abstract
The research project - dr. Cvetka Tóth [6303] and dr. Borut Ošlaj [11483]- entitled Metaphysics and Anthropology of Ethics will examine certain basic problems of ontology, metaphysics, anthropology, and ethics, in particular in the field of post-Kantian philosophy. One of the main issues is to establish metaphysics as an immanent and experimental discipline - down-to-earth-oriented metaphysics - and no longer conceived of as Platonic - otherworldly - metaphysics. This kind of metaphysics (Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Theodor W. Adorno) makes no attempt to explain the essence of the world, or everything existing in the world by means of transcendental criteria. Instead, it restricts itself to those criteria which are available in this world.
The anthropological part of the project represents studies concerning diaphoric ethics of nature with the aim to establish the universal ethics of being. The philosophical anthropological precondition for such universal ethics is the theory of man as a symbolic diaphoric being. The central point is the transition from the philosophical anthropology to ethically postulated acting. This includes the permanent question about the relation between the theory of man and his ethics. Can we discuss anthropology and ethics on the basis of similar or even the same theoretical grounds? The project will try to analyse Ernst Cassirer's theory of simbolic forms (myth, language, art, science). Such an approach means that man is understood as an >animal symbolicum<, who is always in an open dialogue with himself, other human beings and the whole world. The real essence of ethics is to reach other people - humanism - and the totality of universe.
The project also delves into the latest studies in the field of ontology, metaphysics and ethics of anthropology that strive to base ethics on wholly non-metaphysical foundations. In this context, the concepts of holiness (Arthur Schopenhauer) and responsibility (Hans Jonas) are particularly prominent - that of being, of life, in short, of everything that has life. The fact is that modernism avoided the concept of holiness, whereas contemporary theory has considered it increasingly, thus assuming the role of a highly conscious ecological thought, ethics of nature. Both researchers involved in the project stress the significance of philosophy concerning the concept of orientation, which becomes more and more important in the third millennium. It follows from the above that philosophy is no longer absolute knowledge but rather an illuminator with a role of providing orientation.
