Name: Why a Transcendental Anthropology?
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Author: Leonardo Polo
ISBN: 9780991256815

portada Why a Transcendental Anthropology?

Type

Physical Book

Author

Leonardo Polo

Publisher

Leonardo Polo Institute of Philosophy

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x0.6 cm

Weight

0.15 kg.

ISBN13

9780991256815

Synopsis "Why a Transcendental Anthropology?"

The question, "Why a transcendental anthropology?" entails already having in someway attained the answer to the question, and yet it also calls for a justification not only of the answer, but of the question itself. In this short work, the Spanish philosopher Leonardo Polo (1926-2013) presents his proposal of a transcendental anthropology and seeks to provide historical and philosophical reasons that make such a proposal timely and fitting for the present historical situation of philosophy. Polo's proposal makes use of the philosophical method that he calls theabandonment of the mental limit. When applied to the study of the human person, the result is a transcendental anthropology that expands the classical doctrine of the transcendentals to include anthropological transcendentals and is capable of critically engaging modern and contemporary philosophy, thus correcting its errors and incorporating its deepest insights into itself.

Leonardo Polo

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(Madrid 1926 - Pamplona 2013) graduated in Law (1949); later he completed a degree and a PhD in Philosophy. He joined the University of Navarra in 1954. He obtained the chair of Foundations of Philosophy at the University of Granada in 1966, which he held for two years. He spent the rest of his academic life in Navarra, except for the summers, when he taught undergraduate and doctoral courses at universities in Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Chile, etc. He held various positions, such as director of studies at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, director of the Department of History of Philosophy, director of the doctoral program in Philosophy, etc. Doctor Honoris causa from the University of Piura (Peru). The Government of Navarra awarded him in 2008 the Cross of Carlos III the Noble in recognition of his philosophical work with undergraduate and doctoral students, from various careers and universities.

His philosophical depth and originality are reflected in the high number of publications, books and articles, doctoral theses, etc., on his thought; on his philosophical doctrine, the journal Studia Poliana has also been published in Pamplona since 1998; in Malaga, online, Miscelánea Poliana and since December 2014 Journal of Polian Studies (South Bend, USA).

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