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What is a person? : realities, constructs, illusions
- Title
- What is a person? : realities, constructs, illusions / John M. Rist, University of Toronto.
- Author
- Rist, John M.
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- ©2020
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Details
- Description
- vii, 288 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "In this book, John Rist offers an account of the concept of "person" as it has developed in the West, and how it has become alien in a post- Christian culture. He begins by identifying the 'Mainline Tradition' about persons as it evolved from the time of Plato to the High Middle Ages, then turns to successive attacks on it in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, then proceeds to the 'Five Ways' in which the Tradition was savaged or distorted in the nineteenth century and beyond. He concludes by considering whether ideas from contemporary philosophical movements, those that combine a closer analysis of human nature with a more traditional metaphysical background may enable the Tradition to be restored. A timely book on a theme of universal significance, Rist ponders whether we persons matter, and how we have reached a position where we are not sure whether we do"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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 2. 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 3. 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 5. Persons restored or final solution? ; 21. Parfit and Heidegger ; 22. Strawson and Nagel ; 23. Personalism, Phenomenology, Edith Stein ; 24. God Made Adam and Eve.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-5948
- ISBN
- 9781108478076
- 1108478077
- 9781108746816
- 1108746810
- LCCN
- 2019042097
- OCLC
- 1112370675
- Author
- Rist, John M., author.
- Title
- What is a person? : realities, constructs, illusions / John M. Rist, University of Toronto.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Rist, John M. What is a person? Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA, 2020. (DLC) 2019042098
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-5948