Naturaleza y autointerpretación

In this article, we explore the two poles of the constitution of identity: nature and self-interpretation. We begin with the arguments put forward by Alasdair MacIntyre for a philosophical anthropology rooted in a post-Darwinian philosophy of biology; this is followed by Paul Ricoeur’s emphasis against the analytic philosophy of personal identity and in favor of a conception of the human that takes into account the earthly roots of corporeality; and by the sui generis ecological conception that can be inferred from the notions of language, Lichtung, and the fourfold found in the later works of Martin Heidegger, which resonate with Arne Næss’s deep ecology. On this basis, we analyze the notion of the human being as a self-interpreting animal defended by the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor.