Finding Our Way Back to the Personal through Etymology

• Authors: Prust Richard C.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Modernity has made “person” a problematic term. By tracing the etymology of several common words whose origin pre-dates the scientific revolution – “intend,” “know,” “moment,” “deliberate,” and “true” – we can discern some of the sensibilities upon which a systematic recovery of the personal might best be based.

Keywords

EN

etymology; person; pre-scientific

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydział Filozofii
• Journal: Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 1(3)
• Pages: 17–23

Dates

published

2018-04-27

Contributors

author

Prust Richard C.

• St. Andrews University (North Carolina)

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Identifiers

DOI

10.26319/3913