Title: Identifying the possible implications of the concept of the Anthropocene for the philosophical-anthropological thought
Source document: Pro-Fil. 2024, vol. 25, iss. 1, pp. 39-52
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39-52
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ISSN1212-9097 (online)
Persistent identifier (DOI): https://doi.org/10.5817/pf24-1-37798
Stable URL (handle): https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/digilib.80418
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Abstract(s)
The paper focuses on identifying the possible, and assumed, implications of the concept of the Anthropocene for thinking about the human in a philosophy that accepts the transition from Holocene to Anthropocene thinking. The aim of the paper is to produce a systematic treatment of the philosophical-anthropological presuppositions of the concept of the Anthropocene. Illuminating the relationship between the concepts of the Earth System, the planetary boundaries and the Anthropocene has to be the focus if we are to delineate the basic anthropological issues so that they can be further conceptually elaborated from a philosophical-anthropological perspective. Such an approach aims to highlight the various interpretive disagreements not only in understanding the concept of the Anthropocene but also in understanding the meaning of the concept of humanity as a geobiophysical force.
Note
This work was supported by a Grant programme for SAS PhD students n. APP0438, and VEGA no. 2/0110/24 Tasks of Political Philosophy in the Context of the Anthropocene II.
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