Personalist Anthropology: A philosophical guide to life
About this ebook
This ambitious volume offers a pedagogical and integrated exposition of philosophical personalism, answering vital questions about human identity and existence in a way that the reader (or student) can achieve an integrated view of the person. The book points to the real life of each person so that, by partially unraveling the mystery of the personal being, it becomes a philosophical guide for life. For these reasons, the book can be used both for academic purposes, as a manual of philosophy of man or for personal enlightenment.
Divided in five parts, the first part of the book works as an introduction, offering an overview of the human person and of the notion of person. The second part describes the internal structure of the human being addressing topics as corporeity as a personal fact; sensibility and the senses; affectivity; intelligence; freedom understood as choice and self-determination and, finally, the personal self. The third part analyses the person in action and some special types of action such as work and language. The fourth part deals with interpersonal relationships beginning with I-You relationship (friendship, love) and following with the family and the social structure. Finally, part five deals with the so-called ultimate questions, that is, those that decide the final meaning of each person’s life, namely, time, death, immortality, and religion.
About the author
Juan Manuel Burgos is a well-known personalist philosopher, developer of the theory of Integral Personalism. He is the founder and president of the Spanish Association of Personalism, the Iberoamerican Association of Personalism and the Journal “Quién. Journal of Personalistic Philosophy”. He is also the Director of the Online Master’s Degree in Personal Anthropology at UDIMA (Online University of Madrid) and Professor at the San Pablo CEU University (Madrid).
Burgos has been a visiting professor, giving courses and conferences at universities in the United States, Europe and Latin America. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of journals in several countries and has published numerous scientific articles and books, including “An Introduction to Personalism” (Washington 2018), “Repensar la naturaleza humana” (Madrid, México 2017), “Karol Wojtyla verstehen. Eine Einführung in seine Philosophie” (Berlin, 2020), “La experiencia integral” (Madrid 2015) or “Personalismo y metafísica” (Madrid, 2021), some of which have been translated into English, German, Polish and Portuguese. He has been honored with the Medal of the Anahuac University in Humanities (Mexico), and the Humanities Research Award Ángel Herrera in 2015.
