Explores how the concept of person developed from both non-Christian and Christian sources and the ensuing impact of post-Christian culture. This book considers whether we have rights as persons, whether we 'matter', and how we have reached a position where we are not sure whether we do.
Explores how the concept of person developed from both non-Christian and Christian sources and the ensuing impact of post-Christian culture. This book considers whether we have rights as persons, whether we 'matter', and how we have reached a position where we are not sure whether we do.
John Rist is an Emeritus Professor of the University of Toronto. Author of more than a dozen books and over a hundred articles on ancient philosophy, patristics, and ethics, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and an Aquinas Medalist of the American Catholic Philosophical Association.
Inhaltsangabe
Part I. Constructing the 'Mainline Tradition': 1. The first foundations: Plato and Aristotle 2. From Stoic individuals and personae to Christian persons 3. Mixtures: Plotinus, Porphyry, Nemesius 4. Augustine's personae: theology, metaphysics, history 5. The definition: Boethius and Richard of Saint Victor 6. Toward a synthesis: Thomas Aquinas 7. Between two worlds: Duns Scotus Part II. No God, No Soul What Person?: 8. Virtue, 'virtue', rights 9. Descartes on soul, self, mind, nature 10. Personal identity from Hobbes to Locke 11. After Locke 12. Sympathy or empathy: Richardson, Hume, Smith 13. Ambiguous Rousseau's soul and 'moi' 14. Kant's rational autonomy Part III. Toward Disabling the Person: 15. Introducing the five ways 16. Assimilation and homogenization 17. The way of Prometheus 18. Whistling in the humanitarian wind 19. Virtual morality: propaganda as social glue 20. The way to an absolute nihilism Part IV. Persons Restored or Final Solution?: 21. Parfit and Heidegger 22. Strawson and Nagel 23. Personalism, phenomenology, Edith Stein 24. God made Adam and Eve.
Part I. Constructing the 'Mainline Tradition': 1. The first foundations: Plato and Aristotle 2. From Stoic individuals and personae to Christian persons 3. Mixtures: Plotinus, Porphyry, Nemesius 4. Augustine's personae: theology, metaphysics, history 5. The definition: Boethius and Richard of Saint Victor 6. Toward a synthesis: Thomas Aquinas 7. Between two worlds: Duns Scotus Part II. No God, No Soul What Person?: 8. Virtue, 'virtue', rights 9. Descartes on soul, self, mind, nature 10. Personal identity from Hobbes to Locke 11. After Locke 12. Sympathy or empathy: Richardson, Hume, Smith 13. Ambiguous Rousseau's soul and 'moi' 14. Kant's rational autonomy Part III. Toward Disabling the Person: 15. Introducing the five ways 16. Assimilation and homogenization 17. The way of Prometheus 18. Whistling in the humanitarian wind 19. Virtual morality: propaganda as social glue 20. The way to an absolute nihilism Part IV. Persons Restored or Final Solution?: 21. Parfit and Heidegger 22. Strawson and Nagel 23. Personalism, phenomenology, Edith Stein 24. God made Adam and Eve.
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