Edgar Morin and the nature of Humankind. To be concurrently within and without nature

At the end of the 1960s, Edgar Morin engaged in his epistemological reflection that would be developed throughout his various volumes of La Méthode. One of his main questions was how to conceive the complexity of the human being. Dismissing the reductive and unidimensional conceptions of a Homo sapiens conceived only as a technician (Homo faber), as an economic agent (Homo oeconomicus), he promotes the conception of Homo complexus, ie. a multiple and contradictory being, at the same time sapiens and demens, faber and mythologicus, oeconomicus and ludens, and so on. A unique offshoot amongst the living beings, both fully within and without Nature.