CONSTITUTIVE RELATIONS: A PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
CONSTITUTIVE RELATIONS: A PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Summary/Abstract: This is an essay in philosophical anthropology that explores two themes: 1) an understanding of human being as relationally constituted, and 2) the constitutive role of absence in human being. The authors present and explore the general ideas of the American philosopher Justus Buchler and their intersection with those of Nicholas Rescher, Jacques Lacan, Helmuth Plessner, Arnold Gehlen. The authors contend that a relational conception of human being is both plausible and desirable, and that absence or lack is a distinctive constitutive feature of human being.

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