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| Person, philosophy: A thinking and sentient being that distinguishes itself from others. In the course of the history of philosophy, further determinations have been agreed on or disregarded, e.g. rationality, autonomy, not-being-able-to-be-possessed. While the human and his body age, the person has no temporal stages. See also individual, law, continuants, identity._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Jürgen Habermas on Person - Dictionary of Arguments
IV 158 Person/Identification/Habermas: Persons cannot be identified under the same conditions as observable objects. In the case of persons, spatiotemporal identification is not sufficient. >Identification, >Individuation, >Individuals, cf. >Individuation/Strawson, >Person/Strawson, cf. >Continuants, >Personal identity. IV 159 While entities are generally determined by the fact that a speaker can make a statement of them, persons belong to the class of entities who can take on the role of a speaker themselves. For categorization as a person, it is not enough that a person can say "I", but how they do it. >I, Ego, Self, >Self-identification, >Self-reference, >Subjects. The expression "I" not only has the deictic meaning of the reference to an object, it also indicates the pragmatic attitude or perspective from which the speaker expresses himself/herself. >Reference, >Perspective. In the communicative role of the speaker, someone addresses at least one listener. >Speaking, >Communication. IV 160 The peculiarity of the person is explained by the fact that persons do not have to acquire the identity conditions first and even the criteria by which they can be identified under these conditions (...) until they can be identified at all as a person and, if necessary, as this particular person. >Person/Locke, >Person/Kant, >Person/Strawson. IV 161 Identity/Person/Habermas: since persons acquire their identity through linguistically mediated interaction, they fulfil the identity conditions for persons and the basic identity criteria for a certain person not only for others but also for themselves. They see themselves as people who have learned to participate in social interactions. Cf. >Identity/Henrich. The person can answer the question of what kind of person he/she is, not just one of all. Identity criteria/conditions of identity/Habermas: are only fulfilled by the person when he/she is able to attribute the corresponding predicates to himself/herself. >Identity criteria, >Identity conditions, >Criteria._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Ha I J. Habermas Der philosophische Diskurs der Moderne Frankfurt 1988 Ha III Jürgen Habermas Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. I Frankfurt/M. 1981 Ha IV Jürgen Habermas Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. II Frankfurt/M. 1981 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-19