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anthropological

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Pertaining to anthropology; belonging to the nature of man.

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The end of man (as a factual anthropological limit) is announced to thought from the vantage of the end of man (as a determined opening or the infinity of a telos). Man is that which is in relation to his end, in the fundamentally equivocal sense of the word. Since always. Jacques Derrida

Myth does not want to be interpreted in cosmological terms but in anthropological terms-or, better, in existentialist terms. Rudolf Bultmann

The message is that all things are connected. We have animal aspects, anthropological aspects, plant-animal aspects. John Dee

I try to go further on over the threshold where modern art ends and anthropological art has to start. Joseph Beuys

With each new discovery of chemistry, physics, biology, the anthropological sciences, of the practical application of sound principles, dogma collapses. It is a part of that old edifice of religion which crumbles and falls in ruins. Benito Mussolini

Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue. Clifford Geertz

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