Concept
Antihumanism
Overview
In social theory and philosophy, antihumanism or anti-humanism is a theory that is critical of traditional humanism and its traditional ideas about humanity and the human condition. Central to antihumanism is the view that philosophical anthropology and its concepts of "human nature", "man" or "humanity" should be rejected as historically relative, ideological or metaphysical.
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This antithesis does not merely display itself for our consciousness, in the limited region of moral action; but also emerges as a fundamental distinction and antagonism between that which is real essentially and in its own right,[95] and that which is external reality and existence. Formulated in the abstract, it is the contrast of the universal and particular, when the former is explicitly fixed over against the…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy of Fine Arts Translated from the German with Notes and Prefatory Essay
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But philosophers even to this day often have the delusion that the substitutions are actually made.[92]
John Dewey, Creative Intelligence
States what Antihumanism is.
According to general opinion, however, there is one feature of culture which characterizes it better than any other, and that is the value it sets upon the higher mental activities—intellectual, scientific, and aesthetic achievement—the leading part it concedes to ideas in human life. First and foremost among these ideas come the religious systems with their complicated evolution, on which I have elsewhere…
Sigmund Freud, Civilization and its discontents
Close in meaning to Antihumanism; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Antihumanism
Related ideas
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Ferdinand de Saussure
- Max Stirner
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Auguste Comte
- Philosophy
- Human rights
- The Ego and Its Own
- Immanuel Kant
- Individualism
- Idealism
- Jacques Lacan
- Jürgen Habermas
- Human condition
- Scientism
- Roland Barthes
- Metaphysics
- Autonomy
- Linguistics
- Frankfurt School
- Psychoanalysis
- Post-structuralism
- Sense data
- Sigmund Freud
Place in the tradition
Part of Essentialism.