The Logic of Human Personality: An Onto-Logical Account

by Mary L. O'Hara

Shows how Boethius' ancient definition of the word person remains useful today, especially in psychological and anthropological research, and explains how this 1,500-year-old definition fell into disuse. Surveys the history of the word person, and examines the differences in Latin and Greek roots of the word and continuing legacies of those differences. Contains sections on objections to the traditional notion of person, a history of the notion of person, and an onto-logical account of the person, plus an appendix of personalist philosophers and their ideas. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

149 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1997