Understanding Human Being Within the Framework of William Stern’s Critical Personalism: Teleology, Holism, and Valuation

Lehmann-Muriithi, Kolja; Cardoso, Carolina de Resende Damas; Lamiell, James T.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-21094-0_12

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“…It would be interesting to contrast the present proposal of paying attention to phenomenology in our understanding of the person with William Stern's critical personalism (Stern 2010;Lamiell 2003;Lehmann-Muriithi et al 2016). Stern stands between what he calls a naïve personalism, which places an independent I as the source of unity in the person, and impersonalism, which treats the person as a thing, a by-product of mechanisms.…”

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The Person at the Core of Psychological Science

Franck

2021

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The paper has been written from a philosophical perspective and triggered by the recurrent discussions in psychology about the most suitable methods to study our multifaceted subjectivity. Its main point is that a phenomenological understanding of the human person provides a robust and also flexible philosophical framework for psychology. The first part discusses three classical distinctions –individual/general; explaining/understanding; induction/interpretation– which, in spite of possible deficiencies, are useful to illustrate the specificity of the human sciences relative to the natural sciences. If not understood as an either-or dichotomy these distinctions represent the search of the right balance to reflect the complexity and richness of psychological science. The second part presents the phenomenological notions of ‘vital reduction’ and ‘personalist reduction’, where reductions does not take on an eliminativistic meaning, but of directing the mind’s gaze to attend to what is originally the case. The ‘vital reduction’ reveals a subject of experience at the center of the lifeworld, and the ‘personalist reduction’ sees in rationality –i.e., the power to grasp the meaning of things and to recognize other subjects of experience– a deeper dimension of the subject, who we can thus call a person. Psychology and phenomenology converge in disclosing the person-centeredness of our lifeworld.

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Section: Conclusive Remarksmentioning

confidence: 87%