personalism
Sign in to savePersonalism is an intellectual stance that emphasizes the importance of the human person. Personalism exists in many different versions, and this makes it somewhat difficult to define as a philosophical and theological movement. Friedrich Schleiermacher first used the term personalism () in print in 1799. One can trace the concept back to earlier thinkers in various parts of the world.
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16 sectionsContents
- Overview
- Variants
- Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev
- Emmanuel Mounier
- Catholic personalism<!--Ethical personalism' redirects here-->
- <!--'Boston personalism' redirects here--> Boston personalism
- <!--'Personal idealism' and 'Boston personalism' redirect here--> California personalism
- Critical personalism
- Tartu school of personalism
- Antecedents and influence
- Notable personalists
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Personalism is an intellectual stance that emphasizes the importance of the human person. Personalism exists in many different versions, and this makes it somewhat difficult to define as a philosophical and theological movement. Friedrich Schleiermacher first used the term personalism () in print in 1799. One can trace the concept back to earlier thinkers in various parts of the world.
==Overview== Writing in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Thomas D. Williams and Jan Olof Bengtsson cite a plurality of "schools" holding to a "personalist" ethic and "Weltanschauung", arguing: