B. Pascal: the dilemma of the essential and the existential in anthropological reflection

Q3 Arts and Humanities

Sententiae Pub Date : 2023-12-31 DOI:10.31649/sent01.01.075

Vitaliy Tabachkovskyi

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Abstract

The article examines the gradual existentialization of Modern anthropological reflection. The author sees the key basis for this existentialization in the shift from an isolated study of certain clearly defined essential anthropological definitions to the consideration of their configurations. Considering the modifications of anthropologically oriented thinking by Montaigne, Pascal, Nietzsche, and Dostoevsky, the author concludes that the consistent existentialization of anthropological reflection by B. Pascal not only significantly expanded the understanding of the essential properties of man, but also immeasurably deepened them, directing anthropologists to overcome the techniques of "essential-reduction". The author argues that such an overcoming became possible, in particular, due to the constant clarification of the role of the "deviant" in maintaining the viability of the "normative".

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B.帕斯卡尔：人类学反思中的本质与存在的困境

文章探讨了现代人类学思考的逐渐存在化。作者认为，这种存在主义化的关键基础在于，从孤立地研究某些明确界定的基本人类学定义，转向对其构型的思考。考虑到蒙田、帕斯卡尔、尼采和陀思妥耶夫斯基等人对人类学思维的修改，作者得出结论：帕斯卡尔对人类学思考的一贯存在主义化不仅极大地扩展了对人的本质属性的理解，而且不可估量地深化了这种理解，引导人类学家克服 "本质还原 "的技巧。作者认为，这种克服之所以成为可能，特别是因为 "离经叛道者 "在维护 "规范 "的可行性方面的作用不断得到澄清。

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