Personalism Revisited

Personalism Revisited
Title Personalism Revisited PDF eBook
Author
Publisher BRILL
Pages 441
Release 2021-11-08
Genre Religion
ISBN 9004496092

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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.

Persons

Persons
Title Persons PDF eBook
Author Antonia LoLordo
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 417
Release 2019-08-06
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0190634413

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What is a person? Why do we count certain beings as persons and others not? How is the concept of a person distinct from the concept of a human being, or from the concept of the self? When and why did the concept of a person come into existence? What is the relationship between moral personhood and metaphysical personhood? How has their relationship changed over the last two millennia? This volume presents a genealogy of the concept of a person. It demonstrates how personhood--like the other central concepts of philosophy, law, and everyday life--has gained its significance not through definition but through the accretion of layers of meaning over centuries. We can only fully understand the concept by knowing its history. Essays show further how the concept of a person has five main strands: persons are particulars, roles, entities with special moral significance, rational beings, and selves. Thus, to count someone or something as a person is simultaneously to describe it--as a particular, a role, a rational being, and a self--and to prescribe certain norms concerning how it may act and how others may act towards it. A group of distinguished thinkers and philosophers here untangle these and other insights about personhood, asking us to reconsider our most fundamental assumptions of the self.

Yes, But Not Quite

Yes, But Not Quite
Title Yes, But Not Quite PDF eBook
Author Dwayne A. Tunstall
Publisher Fordham Univ Press
Pages 192
Release 2009-08-25
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0823230562

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This book contends that Josiah Royce bequeathed to philosophy a novel idealism based on an ethico-religious insight. This insight became the basis for an idealistic personalism, wherein the Real is the personal and a metaphysics of community is the most appropriate approach to metaphysics for personal beings, especially in an often impersonal and technological intellectual climate. The first part of the book traces how Royce constructed his idealistic personalism in response to criticisms made by George Holmes Howison. That personalism is interpreted as an ethical and panentheistic one, somewhat akin to Charles Hartshorne's process philosophy. The second part investigates Royce's idealistic metaphysics in general and his ethico-religious insight in particular. In the course of these investigations, the author examines how Royce's ethico-religious insight could be strengthened by incorporating the philosophical theology of Dr. Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., and Emmanuel Levinas's ethical metaphysics. The author concludes by briefly exploring the possibility that Royce's progressive racial anti-essentialism is, in fact, a form of cultural, antiblack racism and asks whether his cultural, antiblack racism taints his ethico-religious insight.

Time, Will, and Purpose

Time, Will, and Purpose
Title Time, Will, and Purpose PDF eBook
Author Randall Auxier
Publisher Open Court
Pages 440
Release 2013-12-10
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0812696786

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Josiah Royce (1855–1916) has had a major influence on American intellectual life — both popular movements and cutting-edge thought — but his name often went unmentioned while his ideas marched forward. The leading American proponent of absolute idealism, Royce has come back into fashion in recent years. With several important new books appearing, the formation of a Josiah Royce Society, and the re-organization of the Royce papers at Harvard, the time is ripe for Time, Will, and Purpose. Randall Auxier delves into the primary texts written by Royce to retrieve the most poignant ideas, the ideas we need most in the present day, while he also offers a new framework for understanding the development of Royce’s philosophy. Auxier responds to everything that has been written about Royce, both early and recent.

Suffering, Death, and Identity

Suffering, Death, and Identity
Title Suffering, Death, and Identity PDF eBook
Author
Publisher BRILL
Pages 232
Release 2021-11-08
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9004495762

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This book explores many of the issues that arise when we consider persons who are in pain, who are suffering, and who are nearing the end of life. Suffering provokes us into a journey toward discovering who we are and forces us to rethink many of the views we hold about ourselves.

Looking at the Sun: New Writings in Modern Personalism

Looking at the Sun: New Writings in Modern Personalism
Title Looking at the Sun: New Writings in Modern Personalism PDF eBook
Author Simon Smith
Publisher Vernon Press
Pages 234
Release 2018-01-15
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1622733517

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Every kind of exploration is touched in some way by a philosophy of persons; touched and often vitally enhanced. This collection sets out to mine this rich seam of influence, bringing together authors keen to strike new developments and applications. Together, they have put their philosophy of persons to work in fields as wide-ranging as the moral and the metaphysical, the practical and the political, the cultural and the cosmological. In doing so, they have drawn on and illustrated the depth and breadth of modern Personalist thought, demonstrating its crucial relevance to debates across the entire philosophical spectrum. Whether they are familiar with the Personalist tradition or no, readers from every corner of the philosophical world will find much here to challenge and stimulate them. Most importantly, they will find a new and badly needed philosophical perspective.

Genealogical Pragmatism

Genealogical Pragmatism
Title Genealogical Pragmatism PDF eBook
Author John J. Stuhr
Publisher State University of New York Press
Pages 318
Release 1997-10-16
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1438421540

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Drawing on the work of popular American writers, American philosophers, and Continental thinkers, this book provides a new interpretation of pragmatism and American philosophy.