What Is a Person?: Realities, Constructs, Illusions

In this book, John M. Rist offers an account of the concept of 'person' as it has...
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What Is a Person?: Realities, Constructs, Illusions by Rist, John M.

What Is a Person?: Realities, Constructs, Illusions

CHF 46.54

What Is a Person?: Realities, Constructs, Illusions

CHF 46.54
Author: John M. Rist
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
In this book, John M. 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.

Author: John M. Rist
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 12/19/2019
Pages: 294
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781108478076


Review Citation(s):
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About the Author
Rist, John M.: - 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.

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