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The Priority of the Person: Political, Philosophical, and Historical Discoveries

The Priority of the Person: Political, Philosophical, and Historical Discoveries

Walsh, David

Hardcover

Series: The Beginning and the Beyond of Politics

PhilosophyGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0268107378
ISBN13: 9780268107376
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: Aug 31 2020
Pages: 372
Weight: 1.47
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In The Priority of the Person, world-class philosopher David Walsh advances the argument set forth in his highly original philosophic meditation Politics of the Person as the Politics of Being (2015), that person is the central category of modern political thought and philosophy. The present volume is divided into three main parts. It begins with the political discovery of the inexhaustibility of persons, explores the philosophic differentiation of the idea of the person, and finally traces the historical emergence of the concept through art, science, and faith. Walsh argues that, although the roots of the idea of person are found in the Greek concept of the mind and in the Christian conception of the soul, this notion is ultimately a distinctly modern achievement, because it is only the modern turn toward interiority that illuminated the unique nature of persons as each being a world unto him- or herself. As Walsh shows, it is precisely this feature of persons that makes it possible for us to know and communicate with others, for we can only give and receive one another as persons. In this way alone can we become friends and, in friendship, build community.

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