... must know himself in order to define himself, which is precisely why Buber suggests the use of Philosophical Anthropology. Philosophical Anthropology is not aimed at providing a different view-point on human existence, "it is solely intent on knowing man himself"(64B). It is a unique area of study because a man is not just the observer, but he is the subject himself, and cannot separate himself and look only at ... . Bernhard Graethuysen defines the significance by saying that with Aristotle "man ceases to be problematic, with him man speaks of himself always as it were in the third pers...

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