The Sacred and the Homo Religiosus : Articulating a Philosophical Anthropology from Mirecea Eliade`s Concpet of the Sacred / Joy Kaipan

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Mircea eliade : Life, Influences, Methodology, and Relevance .............9 Life and career of Mircea eliade ...........9 Influences on Mircea eliade ..............21 The methodology of Mircea eliade .............36 Works of Mircea eliade ..........37 Eliade`s Relevance and contributions ........39 2. The concept of the Sacred according to mircea eliade ...................47 The sacred and profane in archaic society .........47 The concept of the sacred ............53 The manifestations of the sacred ............63 The dialectics of the Sacred and profane ..........71 General philosophical Implications of the Sacred ........87 3. Constructing philosophical Anthropology from eliade`s Concept of the Sacred .............92 The meaning of Philosophical Anthropology ...93 The possibility of Philosophical Anthropology ...93 Methods used for Developing a philosophical Anthropology .............99 Eliade`s Philosophical Anthropology from the concept of the sacred ............108 4. A critical Evaluation of the philosophical Antropology of Eliade .............147 Positive aspects of Eliade`s philosophical Anthropology .......147 Negative aspects of Elliade`s Philosophical Anthropology ............165 Towards construction of an Integral Philosophical Antropology ................177