anthropology

nationality

German

occupation / innovator as

philosopher

is the doctrine of human nature whereby human nature is an essence participating in the dual nature of the world, the spiritual and the corporal, that are bound together in unity.

The humanist Otto Casmann, for example, in his work Psychologia anthrapologica... sive Animae humanae doctrina (1594), suggests that anthropology is the 'doctrine of human nature,' whereby the latter 'is an essence participating in the dual nature of the world, the spiritual and the corporal, that are bound together in unity.' As the title of Casmann's work suggests, 'anthropology' was a term with contemporary currency that Kant chose to appropriate for his own, rather different, purposes.

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Otto Casmann