Persona y naturaleza
In spite of the traces that could be found in Greek philosophy, the notion of “person” has a clear Christian origin and could not have been formulated outside that horizon of thought. Man has been created in the image of God and he is a person because, in first term, God is a person. Anthropolog...
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| Sumario: | In spite of the traces that could be found in Greek philosophy,
the notion of “person” has a clear Christian origin and could
not have been formulated outside that horizon of thought. Man has
been created in the image of God and he is a person because, in first
term, God is a person. Anthropological and theological questions become
intertwined during the Middle Ages on this issue. A paradigmatic
example can be found in Peter Lombard’s Libri Sententiarum
and in its commentators, among whom we have paid special attention
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to Thomas Aquinas. Against this background, divine or human “nature”
and “person” become intimately connected notions, because it is
inherent in such natures to exist and to reveal themselves as personal
beings. That relation, nevertheless, becomes lost during Modernity, a
time at which person and nature are understood as antagonistic terms.
Martin Heidegger, an acute critic of that transformation in the history
of thought, proposes a conception of the human being which, despite
Heidegger’s “methodologic atheism”, finally seems to come near to
the Christian notion of person. |
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