Finding Our Way Back to the Personal through Etymology
Modernity has made “person” a problematic term. By tracing the etymology of several common words whose origin pre-dates the scientific revolution – “intend,” “know,” “moment,” “deliberate,” and “true” – we can discern some of the sensibilities upon which a systematic recovery of the personal might b...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Warsaw
2018-04-01
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| Series: | Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture |
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| Online Access: | http://eidos.uw.edu.pl/finding-our-way-back-to-the-personal-through-etymology/ |