UMA ANÁLISE DO SER HUMANO ENTRE A LINGUAGEM CIENTÍFICA E MÍTICA

Abstract

The mythological language and, therefore, symbolic enabled the human being develop what is known by ‘anthropology’, which, must be remarked, is described by the study of man by man himself. In this way, what philosophy and science as a whole have developed over the centuries, as well as possible answers to the question 'What is man after all?', represents a further development of what man had already thought about himself. But, had thought in a symbolical manner. The man, as a symbolic being, thinks of himself in this way, since he cannot fully define himself. Therefore, any scientific effort in relation to it, will always be a search for the definition of a part (a way of being of the man) of the whole (the human being) that, in fact, does not seem to be definable.