The Personalist Forum

The Personalist Forum
Title The Personalist Forum PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 212
Release 1999
Genre Personalism
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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.

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.

Personalism Revisited

Personalism Revisited
Title Personalism Revisited PDF eBook
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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, Institutions, and Trust

Persons, Institutions, and Trust
Title Persons, Institutions, and Trust PDF eBook
Author James McLachlan
Publisher Vernon Press
Pages 289
Release 2017-12-15
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1622732790

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The papers presented in this volume honor Thomas O. Buford. Buford is Professor Emeritus in Philosophy at Furman University where he taught for more than forty years. Several of the papers in this volume are from former students. But Professor Buford is also a pre-eminent voice of fourth generation Personalism, and Boston Personalism in particular. Personalism is a school of philosophical and theological thought which holds that the ideas of “person” and “personality” are indispensable to an adequate understanding of all metaphysical and epistemological problems, as well as are keys to an adequate theory of ethical and political human interaction. Most personalists assert that personality is an irreducible fact found in all existence, as well as in all interpretation of the meaning of existence and the truth about experience. Anything that seems to exist impersonally, such as inanimate matter, nevertheless can exist and have meaning only as related to some personal being. The Boston Personalist tradition was inaugurated by Borden Parker Bowne and continued by Edgar S. Brightman, Peter Bertocci, John Lavely, Carol Robb, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Catholic Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights

Catholic Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights
Title Catholic Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights PDF eBook
Author Leonard Francis Taylor
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 315
Release 2020-03-05
Genre Law
ISBN 1108486126

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Provides a more complete account of the human rights project that factors in the contribution of cosmopolitan Catholicism.

Captured by the Crucified

Captured by the Crucified
Title Captured by the Crucified PDF eBook
Author Edward Hugh Henderson
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Pages 240
Release 2004-08-05
Genre Religion
ISBN 0567557901

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The British theologian and New Testament scholar Austin Farrer was a member of " the Oxford Christians," conversing frequently with C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Dorothy Sayers, and T. S. Eliot. A. N. Wilson has called Farrer "the one true genius of the Church of England in the 20th century." Farrer's theory about the Synoptic Problem remains one the most debated theories of Synoptic relationships in contemporary New Testament scholarship. The editors have put together a book that makes the practical, spiritual meaning of Farrer's thought available to those who desire to integrate serious thinking with faithful life. Contributors to the volume include Ann Loades (University of Durham), Diogenes Allen (Princeton Theological Seminary), Julian N. Hartt (University of Virginia), Charles Hefling (Boston College), and O.C. Edwards (Seabury-Western Theological Seminary). David Hein is Professor and Chair of Religion and Philosophy at Hood College and the author of Noble Powell and the Episcopal Establishment in the Twentieth Century. Edward Hugh Henderson is Professor of Philosophy at Louisiana State University and co-editor with Brian Hebblethwaite of Divine Action: Studies Inspired by the Philosophical Theology of Austin Farrer.