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The present publication Anthropological Presuppositions of Carl Schmitt’s Political Thought aims to analyse as well as cast some light into the anthropological motivation background to a controversial, yet hugely influential, thinker and philosopher Carl Schmitt whose thought has, no doubt, remained relevant up to the current times. The present analysis is based on several presuppositions the meaning of which it intends to explain while it suggests at the same time that Schmitt’s work can hardly be understood unless the following explicit demands expressed by Schmitt himself are applied; they are namely: a) all spiritual concepts are determined by situational context and remain in close interconnection with their respective time period which cannot be disregarded by attempting to adopt a fairly naive neutral position; b) modern age and present-day understanding of the human being is prone to simplification at least and leads to a distorted image of the human being within which disdainful arrogance and disrespect for the importance of an individual being come in combination; c) traditional Christian philosophical anthropology can no longer be resumed at an instant due to its language and terminology now lacking their original persuasive force.