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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809803003321

Autore

Guèye Cheikh

Titolo

Ethical personalism / / Cheikh Mbacke Gueye (ed.)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frankfurt : , : Ontos Verlag, , 2011

ISBN

3-11-032913-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Collana

Realistische Phänomenologie ; ; Band VII

Disciplina

141

Soggetti

Personalism

Personality - Religious aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

part I. On love -- part II. Two religious perspectives on personalism -- part III. Personalism revisited -- part IV. Personalism and its demands.

Sommario/riassunto

Ethical Personalism proposes to reflect on the person from at least three levels: ontology, epistemology, and ethics. Articulating from various philosophical and religious angles and traditions the ontological and inalienable value of the human person, i.e., her dignity, the contributors to this volume show not just what it means to be a human person, but also what it takes to live accordingly. Hence, beyond the purely theoretical elaboration on ethical personalism that reposes the crucial debates between relativism and realism on the one hand, and consequentialism and deontology on the other