8.10 Vittorio Possenti – Personale ed impersonale

The reference to the person is a central nucleus of Western thought, highly supported by the schools of personalism. Today, the very concept of person and personal are challenged by objections that would dissolve them, bringing the core of the person into an area of impersonal, to a neutral third person (it). So are re-emerging positions, once defended by Averroes, that move the intellect off the subject, determining the full mortality of the human person.

The classical notion of person resists these deconstructions, or better promotes to the highest degree the communion of persons (communio personarum) against any conception of the primacy of the impersonal.