Open AccessRobert Spaemann’s Ontology of the Person as a Contribution to Overcoming an Anthropological Crisis
Author(s) -
Andrzej Dominik Kuciński
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
seminare
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2450-1328
pISSN - 1232-8766
DOI - 10.21852/sem.2020.4.03
Subject(s) - ontology , relevance (law) , german , metaphysics , epistemology , philosophy , philosophical anthropology , sociology , political science , law , linguistics
Robert Spaemann (1927–2018) is one of the best-known German philosophers of the present. One of his most important books: Persons contains an ontology of the person that offers a synthesis of metaphysics, anthropology and ethics. The purpose of the article is to present the most important elements of this ontology and to reveal their possible relevance for current ethical problems. Spaemann‘s main achievement is a successful diagnosis of the crisis of the person in the present with the indication of the possibilities of overcoming it through an integral view of the human being.