期刊名称:Alpha Omega : rivista di filosofia e teologia dell'Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum
出版年度:2004
卷号:VII
期号:2
出版社:Athenaeum Pontificium Regina Apostolorum
摘要:The many strands of personalistic thought arose as a reaction to the dehumanizing forces of determinism and materialism of the nineteenth century, and especially against collectivism on the one hand and individualism on the other. Thomistic personalism, espoused by such twentieth-century thinkers as Jacques Maritain, Étienne Gilson, Robert Spaemann, Karol Wojtyła, and Yves Simon, takes its place among the various personalisms, but distinguishes itself from them in adopting a Thomistic metaphysics that posits man’s rational nature as the essential difference between persons and non-personal beings. Based on this key difference, Thomistic personalism focuses on the singularity of persons vis-à-vis other beings, not just as numeric numbers of a species, but as self-determining subjects possessing a unique dignity and worthy of special regard.