RT Article
T1 Created Persons are Subsistent Relations: A Scholastic-Phenomenological Synthesis
JF Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association
VO 89
SP 225
OP 243
A1 Spencera, Mark K.
LA English
YR 2015
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1578190843
AB The recent Catholic philosophical tradition on the human person has tried to articulate the irreducibility of the human person to anything non-personal, and to synthesize all of the best of what has been said on the human person. Recently, a debate has arisen regarding the concrete existence and relationality of persons. I analyze these debates, and show how both sides of these debates can be synthesized into a view on which human persons are both subsistent beings and identical to certain relations. First, I examine those strands of recent Catholic tradition that defend the concreteness and relationality of the person, drawing on some Existential Thomists and phenomenologists; in connection with this, I consider the ideas of the beauty and mysterium of persons. Second, I examine the opposing view, drawing on some traditional Thomists and personalists. Finally, I show how the scholastic notion of transcendental relations can reconcile these views.
K1 Catholics
K1 Christian Philosophy
K1 Essentialism (Philosophy)
K1 Phenomenological psychology
K1 Transcendentalism
DO 10.5840/acpaproc2016l02l49