Announcement

May 30th – June 2nd.  The Max-Scheler-Gesselschaft will collaborate with the Plessner-Gesellschaft for a conference on Philosophical Anthropology: “Was ist der Mensch: Konstellationen der Philosophischen Anthropologie zwischen Max Scheler und Helmuth Plessner” (What is Man: Constellation of the Philosophical Anthropology between Max Scheler and Helmuth Plessner).  16 papers will be read, 8 from each society, drawing on both philosophers.  Tagungsprogramm (pdf)

Helmuth Plessner is normally identified, along with Arnold Gehlen, as one who continued on Scheler’s call for a philosophical anthropology later in his life:

 “we have a scientific, a philosophical and a theological anthropology in complete separation from each other.  We do not have a unified idea of man. … Since the status of these three traditional ideas is severely impaired, in particular the Darwinian theory of the origin of man, we may say that at no time in history has man been so much of a problem to himself as he is now.  For this reason I have tried to give an outline of a new philosophical anthropology based on as broad a foundation as possible.”

Plessner and Gehlen continued on this project of Scheler is diverse ways.