Anthropology – What Is the Human?
Project
Anthropology
What is the human?
Twelve walks take you through fundamental dimensions of human existence: from home, safety and pleasure through body and work to self‑recognition, wholeness and the cosmos.
The question of humanity
Who am I? What do I need? What connects me to other people? And what role do I play in the world in which I live?
In the question ‘What is the human?’ Immanuel Kant gathers the great questions of philosophy. For it is always the human who asks: for knowledge and responsibility, for hope and meaning, for other people, for nature and for the cosmos. He poses these questions as a physical being, in relationships and within a world of which he is a part.
The Anthropology project leads from human basic needs to fundamental dimensions of human existence. The topics are situated in the body and thus are vivid and tangible. At the same time they open a philosophical path that connects one’s own experience with people across time, culture and space.
When people better understand themselves, others and the common good, cognitive and affective empathy can grow. This understanding can help make decisions more consciously, shape relationships responsibly and perceive one’s own place in the world more accurately.
From the ground to the cosmos
Seven levels and twelve topics
The internal order of the project is based on the human body. Seven levels form the deep structure; twelve topics unfold them philosophically. The chakras serve as an analogy and a bodily orientation system. The twelve terms are the independent anthropological elaboration of the project.
The path begins below the feet with home. It leads through rooting, vitality and the centre of the body to the heart, to one’s own voice and to consciousness. Wholeness and the cosmos finally open the view beyond the individual human.
A connection · various approaches
Ways into the project
The content is linked with its applications and its origin. Books, digital access and music enable independent deepening. Events open up shared thinking and experience. Partners contribute individual steps. The development path shows how a cohesive project emerged from photographs, philosophical work and personal experience.
Continue
What is the human? No single book will give a definitive answer. The twelve walks open a structured path where perception, philosophical tradition and one’s own thinking come together.