O homo religiosus: a antropologia filosófica de Viktor Emil Frankl

Abstract

This study that talks about The Homo religiosus: the philosophical anthropology of Viktor Emil Frankl has as its object Frankl‘s anthropology and seeks, as its objective, to understand this way of thinking about the human being in his spiritual dynamics in living religiosity. From a theoretical literature, having as the main works: The Unconscious God ( 1948) , The unconditioned man (1949) , Homo patiens (1950) and The search for God and questions about the meaning of life (1984), the research focuses on the anthropology of Frankl, the spiritual dimension , the search for meaning and the relationship with God. The research is divided in three diferent phases, the first being a contextualization and a critic about the conception of man which Frankl receives from tradition, the second is a proposal to overcome this understanding and the third moment, the experience of the Homo religiosus.