Positionalitätstheorie in Philosophischer Anthropologie Plessners (3)

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  • プレスナーの哲学的人間学における位置性の理論（3）
  • プレスナー ノ テツガクテキ ニンゲンガク ニ オケル イチセイ ノ リロン 3

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In the previous two articles, I discussed the philosophical premises underpinning Plessner's philosophical anthropology and the philosophical and biological discussions from which his philosophy arises. From here onward, I examine the central ideas of the theory of the positionality, which is at the core of philosophical anthropology. 　This paper comments on and clarifies Plessner's theory on the essential characteristics of organic life in general, and the essential characteristics of plant life. First, I return to his understanding of the concept of the positionality, which is established based on the assumed boundary between the life form and the medium that serves as that life form's environmental range. Next, I interpret Plessner's theory on the dynamic and static attributes generally possessed by the life form, and on the possibility of self-adjustment and equipotentiality of living things. Finally, I clarify the positionality, in the ecosystem, of plant life that is characterized as an open organic form and the positionality of plant life as distinguished from that of animal life. At the same time, positive aspects and limitations inherent in Plessner's approach are discussed.

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