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Persons, institutions, and trust : essays in honor of Thomas O. Buford / edited by James M. McLachlan (Western Carolina University), James Beauregard (Rivier University), Richard Prust (St. Andrews College, North Carolina).
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Prust, Richard, author.
- Series:
- Philosophy of Personalism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Buford, Thomas O., 1932-.
- Buford, Thomas O.
- Conduct of life.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (279 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Wilmington, Delaware ; Malaga, Spain : Vernon Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- The papers presented in this volume honor Thomas O. Buford. Buford is Professor Emeritus in Philosophy at Furman University where he taught for over 40 years. Many of the papers in this volume are from former students. But Professor Buford is also a pre-eminent voice of forth generation Personalism, and Boston Personalism in particular. Personalism is a school of philosophical and theological thought which holds that the ideas of "person" and "personality" are indispensable both to an adequate understanding of all metaphysical and epistemological problems, and the key to an adequate theory of ethical and political human interaction. Most personalists assert that personality is an irreducible fact found in all existence, as well as in all interpretation of the meaning of existence and the truth about experience. Anything that seems to exist impersonally, such as inanimate matter, nevertheless can exist and have meaning only as related to some personal being, according to personalists. The Boston Personalist tradition was innaugurated by Borden Parker Bowne and continued by Edgar S. Brightman, Peter Bertocci, John Lavely, Carol Robb and Martin Luther King.
- Contents:
- Buford : the person and the personalist
- Persons, institutions, and communities
- Trust and problems of personal existence.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781622732791
- 1622732790
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