Maurits Potappel Maurits Potappel

Antipersonalism and essence

Antipersonalism can be defined as as any vision of man subjected to political, economic, sociocultural, philosophical, religious, or pseudo-religious conditions, such that it reduces or exalts him to an anti-human measure. These conceptions do not consider man for what he is, but associate him with a “super-human” or with a “less-human”, failing to recognize the ontological significance of the personal being that he is. More precisely, if personalism signifies the centrality and irreducibility of the person, antipersonalism is the reduction of this centrality, pushed to the point of denying it. Hence the question we address: where can we find the measure for thinking about man for what he is?

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