Being human or a human being? Philosophical foundations for human individuality in early Chinese and Greek cosmologies
2023
Abstrakt
The presentation uses selected pre-Socratic fragments, Plato's dialogues, and the Warring States cosmological texts (both received and excavated) to show the diverse approaches, but more importantly, to demonstrate that, contrary to certain scholars' assumptions, both perspectives provide philosophical foundations for a human being both as individual (in-divisible) and autonomous (self-determining), although they arrive at it through different paths.