Showing posts with label gnothi seauton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gnothi seauton. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

the anthropography of man

whereas universal-, intellectual-, world-, big-, deep-, meta-, macro-, micro-, transnational-, trans-cultural-, history
or the history of culture, -ideas, -philosophy, -religion, -science, -history, -biography, etc

Geistesgeschichte, Begriffsgeschichte, histoire des mentalite, et al

are part of the "human story", "human history", they are all parts, portions, aspects or divides of the greater human story which whether it can or not in fact be understood in toto, is surely a "unity" in the sense of it all being related to the human being -- as if gnothi seauton as a whole story reflectively considered -- both individually and collectively considered.
thus: the biography of mankind, the anthropography of man

Monday, April 23, 2012

anthropography

Just as an individual has a biography, so to, also with all the uncertainties and ambiguities of an individual's life, there can readily be conceived the anthropography of mankind, considered as a (in)coherent story. The idea is more inclusive than eg the German Geistesgeschichte or "the history of mankind", or "the spiritual history of mankind", "the history of ideas", etc.

It is a concept which would, as a goal, as a psychology, surpass the divisions developed during history or in academia, of eg literature, religion, philosophy, psychology, history, science, anthropology, art...the humanities, the sciences, the arts, technology....
It would be an attitude, a quest, a perspective to look at the human being -- gnothi seauton -- individually and collectively, sub specie aeternitatis, and not just sub specie scientiae, sub specie academiae.