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debates of the 4th and 5th centuries in contrast to the word nature. During the theological debates, some philosophical tools (concepts) were needed so that the debates could be held on common basis to all theological schools. The purpose of the debate was to establish the relation, similarities and
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Primus defines people exclusively as their desires, whereby desires are states which are sought for arbitrary or nil purpose(s). Primus views that desires, by definition, are each sought as ends in and of themselves and are logically the most precious (valuable) states that one can conceive. Primus
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Thisleton NIGNTC commentary on 1 Corinthians "Thinkers in ancient times had a difficulty in expressing the notion of personality"; Barfield in History of English Words "Take, for instance, the word person...Its present meaning of an individual human being is largely due to the theologians who hit
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attempts to capture those states that are universally considered valuable by their nature, allowing one to assign the concept of personhood upon those states. For example, Chris Kelly argues that the value that is intuitively bestowed upon humans, their possessions, animals, and aspects of the
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Various debates have focused on questions about the personhood of different classes of entities. Historically, the personhood of women, and slaves has been a catalyst of social upheaval. In most societies today, postnatal humans are defined as persons. Likewise, certain legal entities such as
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known as "richness." Richness, Kelly argues, is a product of the "variety" and the "unity" within an entity or agent. According to Kelly, human beings and animals are morally valued and entitled to the status of persons because they are complex organisms whose multitude of psychological and
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Since then, a number of important changes to the word's meaning and use have taken place, and attempts have been made to redefine the word with varying degrees of adoption and influence. According to Jörg Noller, at least six approaches can be distinguished:
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states that rational beings must never be treated merely as a means to an end and that they must also always be treated as an end, Primus offers that the aspects that humans (and some animals) desire, and only those aspects, are ends, by definition.
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The criteria for being a person... are designed to capture those attributes which are the subject of our most humane concern with ourselves and the source of what we regard as most important and most problematical in our
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Richard A. Shweder/Edmund J. Bourne. 1982. Does the Concept of the Person Vary Cross-Culturally?, in: Anthony J. Marsella/Geoffrey M. White (eds), Cultural Conceptions of Mental Health and Therapy, Dordrecht, S.
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Stefaroi, P. (2015). Humanistic Personology: A Humanistic-Ontological Theory of the Person & Personality. Applications in Therapy, Social Work, Education, Management and Art (Theatre). Charleston SC, USA:
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are legally defined as persons. However, some people believe that other groups should be included; depending on the theory, the category of "person" may be taken to include or not pre-natal humans or such
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The Latin word persona was originally used to denote the mask worn by an actor. From this, it was applied to the role he assumed, and, finally, to any character on the stage of life, to any individual.
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distinguishes states of desire (or 'want') from states which are sought instrumentally, as a means to an end (on the basis of perceived 'need'). Primus' approach can thus be contrasted to
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Carrithers, Michael, Steven Collins, and Steven Lukes, eds. 1985. The category of the person: Anthropology, philosophy, history. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press.
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upon it when they were looking for some term that would enable them to assert the trinity of Godhead without admitting more than one 'substance'"; John Zizioulas in
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of persons through time. That is to say, the necessary and sufficient conditions under which a person at one time and a person at another time can be said to be the
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of self, continuity of personality after the death of the physical body, and proposals that there are actually no persons or selves who persist over time at all.
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For a discussion of post-mortal personhood, see Roth, S. (2013) "Dying is only human. The case death makes for the immortality of the person".
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What does it take for individuals to persist from moment to moment – or in other words, for the same individual to exist at different moments?
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for conceiving the natural-rational unity of the person has emerged recently in the concept of the "person life" (Marya Schechtman)."
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biological components are generally unified towards a singular purpose in any moment, existing and operating with relative harmony.
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In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about
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Nelson Pike (1967). Hume's Bundle Theory of the Self: A Limited Defense, American Philosophical Quarterly 4 (2), pp. 159-165.
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Proposed solutions to the problem of personal identity include continuity of the physical body, continuity of an immaterial
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Other theories attribute personhood to those states that are viewed to possess intrinsic or universal value.
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problem is grounded in the question of what features or traits characterize a given person at one time.
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The self-consciousness-based definition of the person as a being that "can conceive itself as itself" (
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Christian Smith. 2003. Moral, Believing Animals: Human Personhood and Culture. Oxford University Press
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and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts.
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Personhood is the status of being a person. Defining personhood is a controversial topic in
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moral-philosophical definition of a person: whereas Kant's second formulation of the
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Online Encyclopedia Philosophy of Nature / Online Lexikon Naturphilosophie
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The moral-philosophical definition of the person as "an end in itself" (
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Lukes, Steven; Carrithers, Michael; Collins, Steven, eds. (1987).
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The Category of the Person: Anthropology, Philosophy, History
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The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire
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Persons: A Study of Possible Moral Agents in the Universe
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The Concept of Personality in Greek and Christian Thought
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The concept of person was further developed during the
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Index

Human
Person (disambiguation)
reason
morality
consciousness
self-consciousness
kinship
ownership
property
legal responsibility
personhood
personal identity
self
nation
ethnic group
philosophical
legal

Paul Klee
Personhood
philosophy
law
political
citizenship
equality
liberty
natural person
legal personality
rights
privileges

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