The transcendental idea of man: anthropological reflections from “Ideas” of 1913

Abstract

This paper explores the problems as well as the feasability about the idea of a philosophical anthropology with a phenomenological basis. Its starting point is the critical issues that, from an external point of view to phenomenology itself, preclude the possibility or transcendental necessity of a philosophical anthropology. The objective is to disclose those elements that from an anthropological point of view are fundamental to understanding the motives of the emergence of this 'anthropological problem' within the context of transcendental phenomenology.