In Robert Hanna’s “Preface and General Introduction to The Rational Human Condition,” which forms the principal part of The Rational Human Condition, Vol. 1 (Hanna, 2018), Hanna outlines his synoptic five-volume philosophical project of rational anthropology. Hanna argues that all philosophical inquiry ultimately centers on the question, “What is the human being?,” suggesting that metaphysics, morals, and religion are all subsumed under this core anthropological pursuit. He also introduces his philosophical methodology, which he terms “real, human-faced, or anthropocentric metaphysics,” by emphasizing what he calls the criterion of phenomenological adequacy, which grounds theory in self-evident human experience and rejects unknowable “things-in-themselves.” Hanna also challenges the Great Divide between Analytic and Continental philosophy, arguing that both traditions are merely post-1945 political and institutional outgrowths of Kantian philosophy, and proposes a broad view of philosophical expression (presentational polymorphism) that allows for non-conceptual content and various artistic forms beyond traditional textual theories.
REFERENCE
(Hanna, 2018). Hanna, R. Preface and General Introduction, Supplementary Essays, and General Bibliography. THE RATIONAL HUMAN CONDITION, Vol. 1. New York: Nova Science. Available online in preview HERE.
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