Full Description
This contributed volume considers the notions of person and logos from different approaches. Although many treat them separately, this text focuses on their intricated interplay. Drawing upon diverse cultural traditions, including Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and Arab sources, this book engages philologists, philosophers, and theologians through captivating analysis that spans from ancient philosophical perspectives to contemporary scholarship. The genesis of this scholarly endeavor owes to a conference held at the Polis Institute in Jerusalem in October 2021, in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University, Notre Dame University, and the University of Hamburg. Out of fifty-seven presentations, fourteen were selected to compose this thought-provoking volume, ensuring a well-structured exposition on the subject.
The opening historical overview provides the framework of the volume, and culminates with Beuchot's intriguing proposition of man as an 'analogical animal'. Subsequent sections explore the concept of logos, tracing its usage in Plato and the Gospel of Saint John, as well as its evolution through scholasticism, modernism, and contemporary thought. Contained are highlights on the notion of person, its development in various languages, and delves into the intricate connections between rationality, speech, and personhood. Metaphysical and personalist approaches are also presented; this book appeals to researchers and scholars in the field.
Contents
Part I Historical Overview of the Notions of Person and Logos.- Chapter 1 On the Notion of Person and its Development in Light of the Concept of Logos.- Part II The Notion of Logos.- Chapter 2 Logos in Ancient Greek: A Philological Inquiry.- Part III The Notion of Logos - The Philosophical and Biblical Context of the Notion of Logos.- Chapter 3 Sophist or Philosopher? Manipulation of Logos in Gorgias' "On Non-Existence" and "Encomium of Helen.- Chapter 4 Job, and the 'adam: the Hermeneutics of Job's Interpretations of the Primeval History.- Chapter 5 Logos in the Prologue of John: A Philological Inquiry.- Chapter 6 In the Beginning Was Discourse: Erasmus' Translation, Academic Controversy, and Popular Reaction.- Part IV The Notion of Logos - Breaking off the Logos of Reality.- Chapter 7 The Cosmological Argument: Leibniz's Unlimited, and Kant's Limited, Rationality.- Chapter 8 The Loss of Reason: The Radical Philosophes' Attack against Rational Religion and Kierkegaard's Religious Anti-Rationalism.- Part V The Notion of Logos - An Attempt to Restore Unity Based on the Theory of Language.- Chapter 9 Charles Taylor on Constitutive Theory of Language and Self-Interpreting Animals.- Part VI Understanding the Person - The Notion of Person at the Root of Three Traditions.- Chapter 10 The Prosopological Reading of the Term πρόσωπον - persona in the Works of Origen and Tertullian.- Chapter 11 Sōma and Gufa: Rabbinic Perception of a Person.- Chapter 12 The Apparition of the Concept of Person in the Beginning of Arabic Theology.- Part VII Understanding the Person - Metaphysical Approaches.- Chapter 13 Individual, Self-Mastery, and the Common Good: Person as a Rational Subsistent in Aquinas.- Chapter 14 Sui Dominium, the Metaphysical Act Constitutive of the Person. An Aristotelian-Thomist Metaphysics Update.- Part VIII Understanding the Person - The Personalist Perspective.- Chapter 15 Person and Rationality.- Chapter 16 The Person in Personalism.
