The Dance of Being
Author | : Leonard Charles Feldstein |
Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1979 |
ISBN-10 | : 0823210324 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780823210329 |
Rating | : 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Now I continue the investigation, begun in Homo Quaerens: The Seeker and the Sought, into the generic traits of persons from a philosophic point of view. I treat such special topics of my method, set forth in that book, as bear upon the person's intrapersonal aspects: namely, his body and such of its functions as contribute to his preconscious acts. In particular, I deal with those aspects insofar as they may be construed as straining, so to speak, toward that self-transcendence which culminates in the veridical person - in effect, strands of subpersonal events which contribute to and converge upon his consummate personhood. In consequence, I explore the ontology of the person under the perspective of his naturalistically interpreted makeup; and I conceive my enterprise as propaedeutic to more generalized ontologic topics which I shall take up in subsequent books.