Gehlen, Arnold

Japanese: ゲーレン（英語表記）Gehlen， Arnold

Born: January 29, 1904 in Leipzig
[Died] January 30, 1976. Hamburg. A contemporary German social psychologist and philosopher. He studied under H. Driesch, who was a pioneer of organic philosophy (vitalism), at the University of Leipzig. He later became a professor at the same university and at other universities, and has been a professor at the Aachen Higher Technical School since 1962. He advocated a new philosophical cultural anthropology based on the view of human beings that humans are not "thinking beings" or beings driven by natural animal instincts, but beings who consciously create culture. His main works include Staat und Philosophie (State and Philosophy) (1935), Der Mensch, seine Natur und Stellung in der Welt (Man: His Nature and Place in the World) (40), and Anthropologische Forschung (Anthropology) (61).

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[生]1904.1.29. ライプチヒ
[没]1976.1.30. ハンブルク
現代ドイツの社会心理学者，哲学者。ライプチヒ大学で有機的哲学 (生気論) に立つ H.ドリーシュに師事。のち同大学および各地の大学教授を経て，1962年以来アーヘン高等工業学校教授。人間は「考える存在」でも，また動物的自然本能に動かされる存在でもなく，自覚的に文化を創造しつつある存在とする人間観から，新しい哲学的文化人類学を提唱。主著『国家と哲学』 Staat und Philosophie (1935) ，『人間－その本性と世界における位置』 Der Mensch，seine Natur und Stellung in der Welt (40) ，『人間学の探究』 Anthropologische Forschung (61) 。

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