Metaphysical and Epistemological Aspects in Human Nature and Human Identity
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https://doi.org/10.18270/rcfc.v23i46.4183Keywords:
human nature, human identity, species, humanity, typology, phylogenyAbstract
Starting with a general presentation of the concept of species as applied to humans, this text presents two general notions of human nature: typological and phylogenetic. Once the foundations of each notion have been exposed, a distinction is defended between human nature and human identity as two aspects that have been confused with respect to this problem, but that play different roles in the explanations, so they are proposed as two complementary notions. Thus, human nature would be defined in metaphysical terms and would account for the biological reality of humans from a phylogenetic point of view, while human identity would be defined in epistemological terms and would account for the knowledge that humans have about themselves, alluding to contingent aspects.
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