El ser humano ayer, hoy y mañana

Abstract

This class note is an approach to answer the question "What is man?" from the fields of philosophical, theological and cultural anthropology. It is not a course for anthropologists, it would be a great claim and it would be light years to achieve it, it is more an introduction for those university students whose programs seek to bring them closer to the study of man as a problem. This pedagogical material has three parts. In the first one, it is intended to answer the question "where do we come from? It is an approach, from cultural and natural anthropology, to Darwin's thinking and to the criticism made by some thinkers like Motoo Kimura, Stephen Gould and Edward Wilson. The scientific explanation of evolution is in mind, from the Big Bang to Homo sapiens. Similarly, an approach is made to the religious explanation of the origin of man and myth. In this section, the concept of myth is deepened, seen as reality that explains the origins and not as fantasy or fable. In the second, we try to answer, from the philosophical anthropology, the question "Who are we?" so different thinkers are approached that approach the reader, at different historical moments, to the way in which the answer to that question has been answered. In the third, the question that arises is " Where are we going?" which develops in three moments, man as a corporeal being and social being; as being for death and ends with the man of the future.