BETWEEN HISTORICISM AND ESSENTIALISM. THE CRITICAL AMBITIONS OF GERNOT BÖHME’S PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
BETWEEN HISTORICISM AND ESSENTIALISM. THE CRITICAL AMBITIONS OF GERNOT BÖHME’S PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Summary/Abstract: Gernot Böhme’s philosophical anthropology combines a historistic-descriptive and a normative approach (“historical models of man,” the axiological “sovereign man” project).The author describes both types of philosophical narrative in detail, together with the categorial and argumentative inconsistencies which appear on their crossing point. His thesis is that the German philosopher attempts to neutralize these aporias by reference to the category of “relief” (Entlastung) and an argumentative strategy close to the position of thinkers like Jürgen Habermas, who made use of the “relief” category in his critical bioethical analyses.

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