Contemporary Theories of Man

Abstract

Marxism, naturalism and existentialism see the need for philosophical anthropology. marx profited from feuerbach's vindication of the concrete human being, but added the dimension of revolutionary transformation of society. dewey accepted bacon's close knitting of man and nature, while closing any rifts among the values and aspirations in evolving society. sartre took a lucid atheism as his first premise, judged man's search after god as self-destructive, and was left with the dilemma that social existence is either futile or to be dialectically interpreted.