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Questions tagged [personalism]

Use this tag for questions about the person as a fundamental notion or for philosophers who take such views. The focus would likely be on practical and ethical issues. Personalists include Borden Parker Browne, Emmanuel Mounier, Jacques Maritain, Yves Simon, Étienne Gilson, Robert Spaemann, Karol Wojtyła, Gabriel Marcel, and Paul Ricoeur.

References on Personalism:

Williams, Thomas D. and Bengtsson, Jan Olof, "Personalism", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2018 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2018/entries/personalism/.

Buford, Thomas O. “Personalism” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy https://www.iep.utm.edu/personal/.

History of personalism: https://web.archive.org/web/20020628043929/http://www.acton.org/research/pubs/papers/history_personalism.html

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Which modern philosophers profess an atheist personalism?

Thomas D. Williams and Jan Olof Bengtsson describe the origin of personalism in the following way: Personalism in the sense of a distinct philosophy or worldview focusing on the full, accumulated import of the concept of the person, however,…
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Why am I myself rather than someone else?

Why am I myself rather than someone else? I think I read something like this in an encyclopedia; that it's a question in philosophy. Not asking what makes me myself, my body, psychology, and narrative history. I'm asking why it is that these are…
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What are the axioms of personalism?

I've read some authors whose works are held as belonging to personalism. However while their works elaborated based on principles of personalism, they never clearly explained what the axioms were that personalism bases itself on. One brief…
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