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Who Is Man ? by philoedu(m): 5:34pm On Sep 27, 2023
Good day to those of you, who for one reason or another, happen to be a part this multipurpose project. It must be out rightly said here that the topic of today, is " who is Man". In fact the reason for this stern from the fact that man, is a project himself, created by God with a task to project all His aspirations. But unfortunately, man seems to have failed God in this singular directive. Nevertheless, He still could not give up on man, rather come to be loved the more, in spite of this short coming. and indeed his deviant attitude . Indeed, it is in this perspective that the question of who is this singular and individual human being really is, in all its short coming, in spite of what looks like all the sacrifice God has carried out for his sake, and yet looking distracted and passive of everyone and everything around him in spite of his intelligence.

Now the word "anthropods" is the ancient Greek word that come to signify “Man". But when the term anthropology is used, it tends to express the primary preferment of that particular reality called man. Therefore, anthropology is a term used in varied context, not without significant, that often could coincide. However, this can be approximately identified in three fundamental dimension or sphere, such that the term anthropology today come to indicate the followings:-
In the first place is the " physical anthropology, that come to indicate the discipline that study man from the point of view of biological characteristic and it's physical structure, which is - semantic.

In the second place is the Cultural anthropology, and if you like, Ethnology that come to indicate the discipline that study the historical origins and the cultural manifestation of humanity.

While in the third place is the Philosophical anthropology that come to indicate the discipline that study man from the point view of it's ultimate value and his sense of life.
However, it will be observed that the philosophical anthropology, does not study what we may call the particular aspect of the existence of man, as it may well be in the empirical sense. For instance, of the like of it's biology, anatomy, physiology, sociology and economic. On the contrary, it come to occupy itself of what one may call the global question of the very significant of human existence.
As it were, the above science did tried with great precision of that organ, this and that activity and it's functions without telling us nothing of what is to be man taking globally.

Therefore, it is clear that anthropological philosophy does not seems to preoccupy with the descriptions of the function of man, none does it seems to care to interrogate of what man does, if not only, want to know who is man really, with all his historical background not without discrepancies. As it were, in spite of all the extraordinary scientific progress of man, we still could not observed and aware of the essentials of what man need to know, and why he actually exist, and in fact, this tends to continually escape everyone reflection,
,although essentially important, as it were, if he must adequately deals and come term with his reality. Of " why are we here"?.

Indeed, one of the acute thinker of the past century; a great logician of a unique fascinating scientific knowledge, did come to opined that we often feel that, even when all the possible scientific questions seems to be answered, that our profound problem will still remain untouched.

Of cause, it is the very profound problem that constitute the very object of philosophy and its discipline. And it is one of the reason why the anthropological philosophy is placed on a different plane, although, not separated so much with that of the scientific one. However, in front of these problems of the ultimate sense of the existence of man, we still can no doubt, come to assume a different attitude, even though, this may not be viewed as a contradiction in term, but still there could be differences. And the same is true, there could always find a response for any such question not without trusting, our intuitive emotion as we feed through the poetic or artistic expressions. By C.J. E.
Re: Who Is Man ? by SeventhOrisa: 11:29am On Sep 28, 2023
If your aim was to query "who is man" why did you include a presupposition claiming "God" provided man a directive and inclusion within this overall narrative?
Re: Who Is Man ? by philoedu(m): 12:07pm On Sep 28, 2023
Thanks, it is really not a query man at all, on the contrary just to share light of who he is, as a religious man, political man, scientific man, and indeed, as a created human being, with a mission on earth.
Re: Who Is Man ? by philoedu(m): 12:09pm On Sep 28, 2023
Thanks, it is really not to query man at all, on the contrary, it is just to share light on the individual called man and of who he is, as a religious man, political man, scientific man, and indeed, as a created human being, with a mission on earth.

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