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List of Tables and Figures | p. vii |
Abbreviations | p. viii |
Acknowledgements | p. ix |
Preface | p. xi |
Freedom and the Human Sciences | p. 1 |
The freedom at stake in the human sciences | p. 1 |
The standpoint of the human sciences | p. 8 |
The Model of Biological Science | p. 14 |
The part-whole relationship in organisms | p. 14 |
Teleology and the origin of life: Epigenesis vs. preformation | p. 21 |
Teleology and the human races: Monogenesis vs. polygenesis | p. 25 |
Freedom, intentionality and the antinomy of reflective judgement | p. 29 |
What Is the Human Being? | p. 35 |
Anthropology vs. alienology | p. 35 |
The three levels of human praxis and their aliens | p. 35 |
Sincere aliens vs. deceitful humans | p. 40 |
Sincere aliens vs. opaque humans | p. 44 |
The difficulties faced by the human scinces | p. 52 |
Methodological considerations | p. 52 |
Experimental considerations | p. 55 |
Metaphysical considerations | p. 58 |
Pragmatic Anthropology | p. 61 |
The Pragmatic domain as the field of human action | p. 62 |
The object of pragmatic anthropology | p. 62 |
The method of pragmatic anthropology | p. 65 |
The aim of pragmatic anthropology | p. 68 |
A twofold method: Natural vs. pragmatic anthropology | p. 71 |
The interplay between manifest and latent functions: Intentionalism vs. functionalism | p. 71 |
Anthropology characterisation: Natural human types an Nature's purposes | p. 76 |
The ethical contributions of anthropology | p. 84 |
Anthropology as a support to the practicability of moral willing | p. 86 |
Anthropology as a help to moral efficacy | p. 89 |
Anthropology as a map-making venture | p. 105 |
Philosophy History | p. 109 |
The antinomy of history: Teleology vs. mechanism in historical explanations | p. 110 |
The part-whole relationship in the human species | p. 110 |
Empirical history: A mechanical account of human intentions | p. 114 |
Philosophical history: A teleological account of Nature's intentions | p. 117 |
From the civilisation of society to the moralisation of the human being | p. 122 |
The teleological story of civilisation: A natural history of the human species | p. 124 |
The teleological story of moralisation: A moral history of the human species | p. 130 |
Pragmatic history: The moral politician vs. the political moralist | p. 136 |
Epilogue: A Pragmatic Counterpart to the Transcendental Project? | p. 143 |
Notes | p. 146 |
Bibliography | p. 185 |
Index | p. 194 |
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