Thomistic Personalism and Creation Metaphysics: Personhood vs. Humanity and Ontological vs. Ethical Dignity

• Authors: Selner-Wright Susan C.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The author seeks to respond to the philosophical appeal of W. Norris Clarke, S.J., “to uncover the personalist dimension lying implicit within the fuller understanding of the very meaning and structure of the metaphysics of being itself, not hitherto explicit in either the metaphysical or personalist traditions themselves.” She does this by discussing the distinctions drawn by Karol Wojtyla: (1) between a human being’s personhood and his humanity, and (2) between the ontological dignity and the ethical dignity of the human person.

Keywords

EN

Thomistic personalism; personalism; person; personhood; human being; humanity; dignity; ontological dignity; ethical dignity; being; metaphysics; W. Norris Clarke; Karol Wojtyla

• Publisher: International Étienne Gilson Society
• Journal: Studia Gilsoniana
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 469-485

Dates

published

2018-09

Contributors

author

Selner-Wright Susan C.

• St. John Vianney Theological Seminary, Denver, CO, USA

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Notes

EN

SELECTED PAPERS OF THE SOCIETY FOR THOMISTIC PERSONALISM. Guest Editor of the Issue: R. Mary Hayden Lemmons

Identifiers

ISSN

2577–0314

ISSN

2300–0066

DOI

10.26385/SG.070323