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Selfhood of the Human Person

Selfhood of the Human Person

Crosby, John

Paperback

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0813208653
ISBN13: 9780813208657
Publisher: Catholic Univ Of Amer Pr
Published: Oct 1 1996
Pages: 324
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
We often hear it said that each person is unique and unrepeatable or that each person is his own end and not a mere instrumental means. But what exactly do these familiar sayings mean? What are they based on? How do we know they are true?



In this book, John F. Crosby answers these questions by unfolding the mystery of personal individuality or uniqueness, or as he calls it personal selfhood. He stands in the great tradition of Western philosophy and draws on Aquinas wherever possible, but he is also deeply indebted to more recent personalist philosophy, especially to the Christian personalism of Kierkegaard and Newman and to the phenomonology of Scheler and von Hildebrand. As a result, Crosby, in a manner deeply akin to the philosophical work of Karol Wojtyla, enriches the old with the new as he explores the structure of personal selfhood, offering many original contributions of his own.

Crosby sheds new light on the incommunicability and unrepeatability of each human person. He explores the subjectivity, or interiority, of persons as well as the much-discussed theme of their transcendence, giving particular attention to the transcendence achieved by persons in their moral existence. Finally he shows how we are led through the person to God, and he concludes with an original and properly philosophical approach to the image of God in each person.

Throughout his study, Crosby is careful not to take selfhood in an individualistic way. He shows how the selfhood and solitude of each person opens each to others, and how, far from interfering with interpersonal relations, it in fact renders them possible.

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