This paper offers a critical reflection on Zdeněk Kratochvíl's philosophical conception of the human being. The author challenges Kratochvíl's attempt to marginalize the traditional oppositions between nature and culture, as well as between subject and object. While Kratochvíl emphasizes language and corporeality as specific relations of human nature to the world, the critic argues that language cannot be reduced to a mere relation. Instead, language should be understood as a distinct "world" or medium that is essential for the human connection to reality and cannot be derived from the world of things. The text further asserts that questioning the distinction between subject and object undermines the philosophical capacity to grasp the problem of physis. Similarly, the relativization of the nature-culture divide hinders the understanding of cultural, moral, and spiritual values. The author concludes that anthropology can only revitalize philosophy if the human being is viewed as a subject, an inhabitant of the world of logos, and a "non-natural" animal. Corporeality remains meaningful only through a subject whose body is distinct from the rest of the world.