What is it about?
This is a philosophical essay regarding two concepts, the face and the hands. Instead of inquiring about essences of what is Man or Human, we argue on the materiality of the body, as that which can help us not to define but to understand the particularity of the human animal. It is out of this, the face and the hands, this materiality that such animal came to be. We conclude with some notes regarding three paintings of the austrian artist Egon Schiele, whom explores the face and the hands in an unique way.
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Why is it important?
By bringing together philosophers such as Lévinas, Deleuze, Derrida, among others, we were able to show, though in a simple manner due to the economy of the text, that self and mankind, or the human animal, is more a process than a product. Hence, it is through a praxis of being instead of a theory of being that we should focus and build upon it an ethics.
Perspectives
Although of reduced extension and concerning few philosophers and their readings on two sole concepts, this is an important step on the creation of an ethic-aesthetic philosophy, more concerned on the notion of body as a complex psychophysical expression of immanent life, one among many expressions. In other words, the human animal is not more important than non-human animals, non-animals and the earth.
Fernando Machado SIlva
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This page is a summary of: The Genesis of General Relativity: Interaction between Einstein’s, Abraham’s and Nordström’s Research Programmes, Kairos Journal of Philosophy & Science, December 2017, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/kjps-2017-0006.
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