{"product_id":"what-is-a-person-realities-constructs-illusions-hardback-9781108478076","title":"What is a Person?; Realities, Constructs, Illusions (Hardback) 9781108478076","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWhat is a Person?\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRealities, Constructs, Illusions\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExplores how the concept of person developed from both non-Christian and Christian sources and the ensuing of post-Christian culture.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn M. Rist (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108478076, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 19 December 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e294 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 16 x 2 cm, 0.56 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'What is a Person? is the fruit of enormous learning and a mind capable of contextualizing philosophers differing in language, culture, and historical contexts in a clear, memorable style of exposition.' Christopher Kaczor, The Thomist\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. Constructing the 'Mainline Tradition': 1. The first foundations: Plato and Aristotle\u003cbr\u003e 2. From Stoic individuals and personae to Christian persons\u003cbr\u003e 3. Mixtures: Plotinus, Porphyry, Nemesius\u003cbr\u003e 4. Augustine's personae: theology, metaphysics, history\u003cbr\u003e 5. The definition: Boethius and Richard of Saint Victor\u003cbr\u003e 6. Toward a synthesis: Thomas Aquinas\u003cbr\u003e 7. Between two worlds: Duns Scotus\u003cbr\u003e Part II. No God, No Soul\u003cbr\u003e What Person?: 8. Virtue, 'virtue', rights\u003cbr\u003e 9. Descartes on soul, self, mind, nature\u003cbr\u003e 10. Personal identity from Hobbes to Locke\u003cbr\u003e 11. After Locke\u003cbr\u003e 12. Sympathy or empathy: Richardson, Hume, Smith\u003cbr\u003e 13. Ambiguous Rousseau's soul and 'moi'\u003cbr\u003e 14. Kant's rational autonomy\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Toward Disabling the Person: 15. Introducing the five ways\u003cbr\u003e 16. Assimilation and homogenization\u003cbr\u003e 17. The way of Prometheus\u003cbr\u003e 18. Whistling in the humanitarian wind\u003cbr\u003e 19. Virtual morality: propaganda as social glue\u003cbr\u003e 20. The way to an absolute nihilism\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Persons Restored or Final Solution?: 21. Parfit and Heidegger\u003cbr\u003e 22. Strawson and Nagel\u003cbr\u003e 23. Personalism, phenomenology, Edith Stein\u003cbr\u003e 24. God made Adam and Eve.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Religious issues \u0026amp; debates [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Religious issues \u0026amp; debates\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Religious%20issues%20\u0026amp;%20debates%20%5BHRAM%5D%22\"\u003eHRAM\u003c\/a\u003e], Philosophy of religion [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy of religion\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy%20of%20religion%20%5BHRAB%5D%22\"\u003eHRAB\u003c\/a\u003e], Philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy%20%5BHP%5D%22\"\u003eHP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46000434872600,"sku":"9781108478076","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108478076i_c192299f-011a-4b1f-8de9-72ea50b0ae29.jpg?v=1696705959","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/what-is-a-person-realities-constructs-illusions-hardback-9781108478076","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}