Finding Our Way Back to the Personal through Etymology
Richard C. Prust
Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture · 2018
doi:10.26319/3913 (opens in a new tab)
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Abstract
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.
Abstract licence: CC BY-NC-ND
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