https://fp.waik.stronazen.pl:443//index.html?id=302 Index des publications de Authors Sarah Scott fr 0 https://fp.waik.stronazen.pl:443//4697-19-1-spring-2014-01.html I reconstruct Buber’s conception of personhood and identify in his work four criteria for personhood—(i) uniqueness, (ii) wholeness, (iii) goodness, and (iv) a drive to relation—and an account of three basic degrees of personhood, stretching, as a kind of “chain of being,” from plants and animals, through hu- mans, to God as the absolute person. I show that Buber’s “new” conception of personhood is rooted in older Neoplatonic notions, such the goodness of all be- ing and the principle of plenitude. While other philosophers have used reason and memory to distinguish persons, I find that Buber instead takes these to be specific to humanity, and I explore Buber’s account of a “fall” from a state of nature into a historical mode, such that our humanity threatens our personhood. Tue, 05 Jan 2021 15:19:33 +0100 Tue, 05 Jan 2021 15:19:33 +0100 https://fp.waik.stronazen.pl:443//4697-19-1-spring-2014-01.html