Publication at Faculty of Education |
2010
Abstract
The book Patterns of humanity deals with how man has understood himself in philosophical reflection since ancient times and how these forms of self-understanding (referred to as zoon logon echon, zoon politikon, imago Dei, ego cogito, ens volens, homo faber, homo ludens etc.) have changed throughout history. It shows here from which of the widest contexts – the existence, the world, God, truth, thought – man derived his self-concept and how he finally pronounced the world, truth and himself to be his own creation.
He has exchanged a holistic point of view for particularity and instead of explaining the whole human being, he wants to understand the world from the voluntarist nature of human activity or pattern of human thought.