Redukcjonizm antropologiczny i jego konsekwencje
Anthropological Reductionism and its Consequences

Summary/Abstract: The article presents an attempt to define anthropological reductionism and points to the various forms of this trend as well as its consequences. The essence of anthropological reductionism is avoiding, when analyzing human reality, essential aspects pertaining to it. As a result of this process, we now have a narrow vision of man, or one that is not in accord with the experience of being a person. We can find two bigger trends in the reductionist trend, and they are internally diverse: one trend reduces the whole of human existence to man being a biological creature, the second sees man as only being a thinking soul. The most important consequences of the reductionist approach to man are: 1) eliminating the richness and specificity of the human being; materialist trends, excluding the personal spiritual dimension of man, deprive him of subjectivity; spiritualist trends reject man’s significant relationship with the body, thus neglecting the reality that man is deeply rooted in nature; 2) the denial of human nature as a permanent structure which is the source of man’s actions, which results in questioning its normative character; 3) the negation of the openness of the human person to the Absolute Person, and this may be due to the deification of man or to limiting man to the material world; 4) the creation of false principles of behavior.

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