Fischer has argued that Hartmann should be counted among the members of a “Cologne Constellation” of thinkers whose main project was the development of a philosophical anthropology that combined serious reflection on human being as a biological creature with the findings of the human sciences and humanities (Fischer 2012). Max Scheler, Helmuth Plessner (1892–1985), Hartmann, and later, Arnold Gehlen (1904–1976), are included in this group. They all shared the desire to bridge the dualism between