Personalism Revisited

Its Proponents and Critics
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-90-420-1519-7
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 124, 399 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 898 g

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book Series / Histories and Addresses of Philosophical Societies

This book presents selected addresses presented before the Personalist Discussion Group meetings held in conjunction with the annual meetings of The American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division. It includes the central ideas of American Personalistic Idealism developed during the twentieth century, its major criticisms, and recent developments by philosophers who are either Personalistic Idealists or sympathetic to the position.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Buford, Thomas O.

Oliver, Harold H.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sonstige Religionen: Theologie, Doktrine
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Editorial Foreword
Preface
Autobiographical Sketch and Introduction by John H. Lavely
Acknowledgments
PART ONE
THE PERSONALIST VISION
ONE Biographical Sketch
A Century of Bowne’s Theism
WARREN E. STEINKRAUS
TWO Biographical Sketch
Some Definitions for Personalists
EDGARD SHEFFIELD BRIGHTMAN
THREE Biographical Sketch
Theistic Personalistic Idealism and the Problem of Good and Evil
PETER A. BERTOCCI
FOUR Biographical Sketch
The Ego-centric Prerogative: A Plea for Idealistics
D. LUTHER EVANS
PART TWO
THE ENLARGEMENT OF THE VISION
FIVE Autobiographical Sketch
The Person in a Personal World: An Inquiry into the Metaphysical Significance of the Tragic Sense of Life
ERAZIM KOHÁK
SIX Autobiographical Sketch
Personalism and the Dignity of Nature
FREDERICK FERRÉ
SEVEN Autobiographical Sketch
Socialism Revisited: A Personalistic Perspective
WALTER G. MUELDER
EIGHT Biographical Sketch
Personalism in Latin America
CORNELUS KRUSÉ
PART THREE
PROBLEMS WITHIN PERSONALISM
NINE Biographical Sketch
A Critique of Brightman’s Person and Reality
JOHN D. WILD
TEN Biographical Sketch
Some Problems in Personalism
LEROY E. LOEMKER
ELEVEN Biographical Sketch
Personalism and the Mind-Body Problem
JOSEPH D’ALFONSO
TWELVE Autobiogrpahical Sketch
The Problem of Self-Constitution in Idealism and Phenomenology
ERROL E. HARRIS
PART FOUR
RELATED PHILOSOPHIES
THIRTEEN Biographical Sketch
Essence, Existence, and Personality
JOHN N. FINDLAY
FOURTEEN Autobiographical Sketch
Is the Self an Ultimate Category?
JOHN E. SMITH
FIFTEEN Autobiographical Sketch
The Structure of Givenness
CHARLES HARTSHORNE
SIXTEEN Autobiographical Sketch
Process and Personality in Bergson’s Thought
MILIC CAPEK
SEVENTEEN Biographical Sketch
Changes in Kant’s Metaphysical Conception of Man
WILLIAM H. WERKMEISTER
EIGHTEEN Autobiographical Sketch
The Personalism of Karol Wojtyla
MARY T. CLARK
NINETEEN Biographical Sketch
The Nature of the Physical Existent
IVOR LECLERC
Appendix The Personalist Discussion Group: A Half-Century Inventory of Papers
About the Editors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Thomas O. Buford is the Louis G. Forgione Professor of Philosophy at Furman University, where he has taught since 1969. He is the author or editor of eight books, including Essays on Other Minds (U. Of Illinois Press), Contemporary Studies in Philosophical Idealism (with John Howie; Claud Stark, Publishers), and In Search of a Calling (Mercer University Press). In 1985 he founded The Personalism Forum, which he edited until 1998; the journal is now edited by Randall Auxier at Southern Illinois University. And in 1989 he and Charles Conti of the University of Sussex founded The International Conference on Person, which meets every other year, alternating between Europe and the United States. From 1985 though 1999 he was the Secretary of the Personalist Discussion Group, an organization which has met at the Eastern Division Meetings of The American Philosophical Association every year since 1938.

Harold H. Oliver is Emeritus Professor of New Testament and Theology, School of Theology, Boston University. A graduate of Samford University, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Princeton University, and Emory University, Professor Oliver has held an American Association of Theological Schools Faculty Fellowship and at Cambridge University he was the Fellow of Cross-disciplinary Studies. He has contributed to scholarly journals, including Journal of Bible and Religion, Perspectives on Religious Studies, Zygon, Journal of Religion & Science, and the Journal of The American Academy of Religion. Harold is best for known for his seminal work, A Relational Metaphysic, Nijhoff, 1981. He now lives in Deatsville, Alabama.