The human in Søren Kierkegaard and Viktor Frankl

• Autor(a) principal: Rosa, Glenda Matias de Oliveira
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Pulino, Lúcia Helena Cavasin Zabotto
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Memorandum (Belo Horizonte)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/memorandum/article/view/6877
• topic: antropologia filosófica; Viktor Frankl; Søren Kierkegaard; existencialismo; philosophical anthropology; Viktor Frankl; Søren Kierkegaard; existencialism

This paper is a theoretical study that aims to approach central aspects of Philosophical Anthropology present in two existentialist authors: Søren Kierkegaard and Viktor Frankl. From the study of what man is, we present some important existential questions that, although developed by these authors in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries respectively, remain current: despair and the search for meaning, freedom, responsibility, possibility and necessity, anguish and existential void. We started from the qualitative research, through a literature review seeking to meet the proposed objective. We understand that the dimension of the spirit differentiates man from other beings. Both authors highlight the spiritual realm and understand the human in its entirety. We conclude that Kierkegaard and Frankl, in their assumptions, offer the possibility of knowledge of man, and of existential questions relevant to our society, which is permeated by despair and existential emptiness. Thus, the authors' propositions contribute especially to the humanities.