Osoba kao moguće mjesto susreta filozofije i znanosti: teorijski pristup
The Person as a Possible Place of Encounter Between Philosophy and Science: a Theorethical Approach

Summary/Abstract: This article discusses the essence of early modern scientific standards as applied to defining the human person. The first part presents the basic concepts of early modern scientific standards, by placing these in a historical framework and linking them to persons and to philosophical and scientific phenomena. In order to describe complex phenomena in terms of simple constituents, modern science adopted a certain methodological reductionism. The second part compares the classical (Boethius) and modern (Descartes and Locke) definition of the person and shows the impossibility of inserting the classical definition of the human person in the early modern scientific context. In the final part of the paper our intention is to create a conceptual framework that goes beyond epistemological reductionism and that aims to bypass the connections between the real, living world and physical and mathematical systems. If the impossibility of inserting the human being into a scientific context was a fruit of modern methodology, after we have emphasized the limits of that methodology what are the implications for the definition of the human person? We outline a proposal for a new theoretical framework for defining the human person.

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