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Chapter 3 has shown that Kant’s method entails a decisive re-evaluation of traditional enquiries into human nature: it redirects the question, ‘what is the human being?’ from his passive essence to his active relationship with the world - from what he is to what he does. Accordingly, the remaining task is to redefine our discourse about the human being, thereby inaugurating a new scientific paradigm, that of pragmatic anthropology.
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Cohen, A. (2009). Pragmatic Anthropology. In: Kant and the Human Sciences. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230280779_4
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