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If the ethical question, what should I do? is addressed to humanity in general, it is because it is posed in the first person. In the same vein, the answer to the anthropological question, what is Man? orients our normative expectations concerning humanity. This systematic aspect of the relationship between moral philosophy and anthropology can be updated according to the historical aspect of the challenge posed by our contemporary spiritual situation. Characterised by a weakening of the fundamental principles of our societies, this situation warrants a metaphysical anxiety, in response to the question: what is reality? Linked to this is the problem of the resonance of the sentient body with its environment, as the relationship of the Living to the Living gives way to the relationship of the Living to the Technical.