The Worldview Of Personalism

Author : Jan Olof Bengtsson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191538094

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The Worldview of Personalism by Jan Olof Bengtsson Pdf

Personalism is understood today as the name of an important current in twentieth-century thought which, inspired by the Christian and humanistic traditions of the West, has sought to deepen our understanding of the meaning and value of human personhood. Opposing both individualism and collectivism, personalism has stressed the uniqueness of each person, the meaning and value of interpersonal relations, and the unity that holds persons together and is, ultimately, also personal in itself: the person of God. Personalism's insights into the nature of personhood have broad implications for our view of ethics, politics, education, and religion. The history of personalism has, however, been poorly understood. Jan Olof Bengtsson shows that personalism began as early as the eighteenth century and was a central, international current of thought throughout the nineteenth century - that it was, in fact, more characteristic of the nineteenth century than of the twentieth.

Author : Jan Olof Bengtsson
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199297191

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The Worldview of Personalism by Jan Olof Bengtsson Pdf

A comprehensive and detailed account of the history of personalism - the system of thought that maintains the primacy and uniqueness of the human or divine person, on the basis that reality only has meaning through the conscious mind.

Author : Juan Manuel Burgos
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781648897580

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Personalism and Metaphysics by Juan Manuel Burgos Pdf

Personalism seeks to understand the person in its richness, complexity, and unity, and, to achieve this goal, it has developed a rich and solid anthropology as well as an ethic of the person that is having repercussions in the philosophical and sociopolitical sphere. But what is the value of this philosophy? Does it offer a mere description of the reality of a phenomenological type, or does it penetrate to the bottom of what exists, offering its intelligible essence? Does it offer an ultimate explanation of the person, or is her vision subordinated to a deeper and more decisive one that would correspond to metaphysics? To answer these questions, the author, an international expert in personalist philosophy, first defines the various meanings in which the term metaphysics can be understood and, secondly, does a comparison between personalism, in particular, integral Personalism, and the metaphysics of being. The analysis concludes that personalism can be considered a first sectoral philosophy, that is, a philosophy that does not need other philosophical referents to establish itself as a philosophy thanks to its direct access to experience, where the person is found. This conclusion is based on the epistemology of integral experience and imposes a review of the traditional role of metaphysics and its connection with anthropology in general and Personalism in particular.

Author : ISKCON Studies Institute
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780956157805

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ISKCON Studies Journal, Vol. One by ISKCON Studies Institute Pdf

Author : John F. Crosby
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780813226897

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The Personalism of John Henry Newman by John F. Crosby Pdf

It has been said that John Henry Newman stands at the threshold of the new age as a Christian Socrates, the pioneer of a new philosophy of the individual Person and Personal Life. Newman's personalism is found in the way he contrasts the theological intellect and the religious imagination. Newman pleads for the latter when he famously says, in words that John F. Crosby takes as the motto of his book, I am far from denying the real force of the arguments in proof of a God ...but these do not warm me or enlighten me; they do not take away the winter of my desolation, or make the buds unfold and the leaves grow within me, and my moral being rejoice. In The Personalism of John Henry Newman, Crosby shows the reader how Newman finds the life-giving religious knowledge that he seeks. He explores the heart in Newman and explains what Newman was saying when he chose as his cardinal's motto, cor ad cor loquitur (heart speaks to heart). He explains what Newman means in saying that religious truth is transmitted not by argument but by personal influence.Crosby also examines Newman's personalist account of what it is to think; he explains what it is for a person to think not just by rule but by his spontaneous living intelligence. Crosby examines the subjectivity of Newman, and shows how the modern turn to the subject is enacted in Newman. But these personalist aspects of Newman's mind, which connect him with many streams of contemporary thought, are not the whole of Newman; they stand in relation to something else in Newman, something that Crosby calls Newman's radically theocentric religion. Newman is a modern thinker, but not the modernist he is sometimes mistaken for. The inexhaustible plenitude of Newman derives from theunion of apparent opposites in him: the union of his teaching on the heart with his theocentric teaching, of the subjectivity of experience with the objectivity of revealed truth. Crosby writes for a broad non-specialist public just as Newman did.

Author : Ferdinando Sardella
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199865918

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Modern Hindu Personalism by Ferdinando Sardella Pdf

This work explores the life and work of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati (1874-1937), a guru of the Chaitanya (1486-1534) school of Vaishnavism who, at a time when various interpretations of nondualistic Hindu thought were most prominent, managed to establish a pan-Indian movement for the modern revival of personalist bhakti - a movement that today encompasses both Indian and non-Indian populations throughout the world.

Author : Juan Manuel Burgos
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813229874

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An Introduction to Personalism by Juan Manuel Burgos Pdf

Much has been written about the great personalist philosophers of the 20th century, but few books cover the personalist movement as a whole. An Introduction to Personalism fills that gap, and presents an engaging anthropological vision capable of taking the lead in the debate about the meaning of human existence and of winning hearts and minds for the cause of the dignity of every person.

Author : Juan Manuel Burgos
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781648893988

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Personalist Anthropology: A philosophical guide to life by Juan Manuel Burgos Pdf

Philosophical personalism has generated a very powerful field of study in the twentieth and twenty first centuries but has not produced a systematic exposition. This book fills this big gap by offering for the first time a full systematic personalistic vision of the human person. This ambitious volume offers a pedagogical and integrated exposition of philosophical personalism, answering vital questions about human identity and existence in a way that the reader (or student) can achieve an integrated view of the person. The book points to the real life of each person so that, by partially unraveling the mystery of the personal being, it becomes a philosophical guide for life. For these reasons, the book can be used both for academic purposes, as a manual of philosophy of man or for personal enlightenment. Divided in five parts, the first part of the book works as an introduction, offering an overview of the human person and of the notion of person. The second part describes the internal structure of the human being addressing topics as corporeity as a personal fact; sensibility and the senses; affectivity; intelligence; freedom understood as choice and self-determination and, finally, the personal self. The third part analyses the person in action and some special types of action such as work and language. The fourth part deals with interpersonal relationships beginning with I-You relationship (friendship, love) and following with the family and the social structure. Finally, part five deals with the so-called ultimate questions, that is, those that decide the final meaning of each person’s life, namely, time, death, immortality, and religion.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004496095

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Personalism Revisited by Anonim Pdf

This book presents selected addresses presented before the Personalist Discussion Group meetings held in conjunction with the annual meetings of The American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division. It includes the central ideas of American Personalistic Idealism developed during the twentieth century, its major criticisms, and recent developments by philosophers who are either Personalistic Idealists or sympathetic to the position.

Author : Bennett Gilbert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351216241

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A Personalist Philosophy of History by Bennett Gilbert Pdf

Historical study has traditionally been built around the placement of the human at the center of inquiry. The de-stabilized concepts of the human in contemporary thought challenge this configuration. However, the ways in which these challenges provoke new historical perspectives both expand and enrich historical study but are also weak and vulnerable in their concept of the human, lacking or omitting something valuable in our self-understanding. A Personalist Philosophy of History argues for a robust concept of personhood in our experience of the past as a way to resolve this conflict. Focused on those who know history, rather than on the abstract properties of knowledge, it extends the moral agency of persons into non-human, trans-human, and deep history domains. It describes an approach to moral life through historical experience and study, rather than through abstractions. And it describes a kind of historiography that matches factual accuracy to both the constructed nature of understanding and to unavoidable moral purpose.

Author : James Beauregard
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781622735815

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Philosophical Neuroethics: A Personalist Approach. Volume 1 by James Beauregard Pdf

Neuroethics is a theoretical and practical discipline that considers the many ethical issues that arise in neuroscience. From its inception, the field has sought to develop an ethical vision from within the confines of science, a task that is both misguided and, in the end, impossible. Providing a solid theoretical foundation for neuroethics means looking to other sources, most specifically to philosophy. In this groundbreaking work, the author examines the current underpinnings of neuroethical thinking and finds them inadequate to the task of neuroethics – to think ethically about persons, technology and society. Grounded in the physicalist and deterministic presuppositions of contemporary science, and drawing on utilitarian thought, neuroethics as currently conceived lacks the ability to develop a robust and adequate notion of persons and of ethics. Philosophical Neuroethics examines the historical reasons for this state of affairs, for the purpose of proposing a more viable alternative – drawing on the tradition of personalism for a more adequate metaphysical, epistemological, anthropological and ethical vision of the human person and of ethics that can serve as a solid foundation for the theory and practice of neuroethical decision making as it touches on the neurologic and psychiatric care of individuals, our philosophy of technology and the social implications of neuroscience that touch on public policy, neurotechnology, the justice system and the military. Drawing on the personalist philosophical tradition that emerged in the twentieth century in the works of Mounier, Maritain, Guardini, Wojtyla, and the Modern Ontological Personalism of Juan Manuel Burgos, Philosophical Neuroethics brings to light the limitations of contemporary neuroethical thinking and sets forth a comprehensive vision of the human person capable of interacting with the contemporary questions raised by neuroscience and technology.

Author : Emmanuel Mounier
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1989-08-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780268161385

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Personalism by Emmanuel Mounier Pdf

This volume, first published a year before Mounier’s death, is his final definition of personalism. It is an eloquent and lucid statement of a perspective in which “man’s supreme adventure is to fight injustice wherever it is found and whatever the consequences” (from the Foreword).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1056 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Personality
ISBN : OSU:32435023717812

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The Personalist by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nuno Ferreira,Dora Kostakopoulou,Julia Bradshaw,Swati Gola
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107077225

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The Human Face of the European Union by Nuno Ferreira,Dora Kostakopoulou,Julia Bradshaw,Swati Gola Pdf

This title assesses EU law and policy using a novel and alternative framework based on the notion of humaneness.

Author : Christian Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226765945

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What Is a Person? by Christian Smith Pdf

The task of understanding human beings, what we ourselves are, our constitution and condition, is a perennial problem in philosophy and related disciplines. Smith argues here that our understanding of human persons is threatened by technological development and capricious academic theories alike, seeking to deny or relativize the personhood of humanity. Smith's book puts a stake in the ground, in defense of a view of the human that is genuinely humanistic in the traditional sense and capable of sustaining with intellectual coherence things like modern human rights and universal benevolence.