Secular and Post-Secular Understanding of the Concept of Personality
| Autor: | Arkady M. Maler |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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| Zdroj: | Almanac “Essays on Conservatism”. 29:131-138 |
| ISSN: | 2542-1301 2409-2517 |
| DOI: | 10.24030/24092517-2019-0-3-131-138 |
| Popis: | The article shows the development of the concept of personality in the history of philosophy as the key value of European civilization. The main problem of understanding personality is that this concept arose exclusively in the context of the formation of Orthodox Christian dogma, where the personality is God himself and man created in the image and likeness of God. Thus, it is in Christianity that the concept of personality has fundamental ontological basis and therefore only in Christianity it has the absolute value. But in the secular philosophy of Modern times the concept of personality has been subjected to radical secularization and is now identified only with the concept of the human individual resulting from biological evolution and the totality of social relations. Hence, from the secular point of view, a human being cannot be a person until certain social realization is achieved, which makes the concept of personality itself virtual and optional. However, in the situation of post-secularism and in connection with the revival of the Christian consciousness, resuscitation of the concept of person as an ontological value is possible. But the return of religious civilization means the revival not only of Christianity but also of all other religions, and the growth of new, neo-pagan and syncretic religious movements, where the concept of personality can be subjected to even greater devaluation than in the secular philosophy of Modern times. |
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