Ethical Personalism - Gueye, Cheikh Mbacke (De Gruyter, 2011)
Chapter 15: Maintaining Humanity in a Technology OrientatedWorld of TodayIndex
Chapter 1: Introduction; Part I: On Love; Chapter 2: Personal Individuality: Dietrich von Hildebrand in Debate with Harry Frankfurt; Chapter 3: Dietrich von Hildebrand on the "Mine" of Love and the Gift of Self in Love: Parallels toWojtyła's Theology of the Gift; Chapter 4: On the Different Forms of Self-Love; Part II: Two Religious Perspectives on Personalism; Chapter 5: Islam and Human Dignity: Insights into Muslim Ethico-Philosophical Thinking; Chapter 6: The Confucian Ethical Vision in The Great Learning and Beyond; Part III: Personalism Revisited
Chapter 7: Community, Persons, and the Case of Faked IdentityChapter 8: A Personalistic Religious Humanism; Chapter 9: Non-Political 'Transpersonalism' of Meister Eckhart; Chapter 10: In the Shadow of Virtue: Why Ethical Personalism Needs an Ethical Impersonalism; Chapter 11: Personalism and Personalisms; Part IV: Personalism and Its Demands; Chapter 12: Personalism versus Totalitarianism: Dietrich von Hildebrand's Philosophical-Political Project; Chapter 13: Persons as Subjects of Suffering; Chapter 14: How Contextual Ethics Defies Ethical Personalism. Case Studied: Interrogational Torture
Ethical Personalism proposes to reflect on the person from at least three levels: ontology, epistemology, and ethics. Articulating from various philosophical and religious angles and traditions the ontological and inalienable value of the human person, i.e., her dignity, the contributors to this volume show not just what it means to be a human person, but also what it takes to live accordingly. Hence, beyond the purely theoretical elaboration on ethical personalism that reposes the crucial debates between relativism and realism on the one hand, and consequentialism and deontology on the other