This page gathers the concept pages available in English — all 364 of them — derived from the personhood ontology and grouped by theme. Every concept is now available in English, and each is cross-linked with related terms. An explanation of how the concept pages came about can be found under About the Concept Pages. The same set of concepts is also available in German as a parallel edition under Concepts Overview (German).
Person, Personhood & Dignity
- Act-Personalism
- Affectivity
- Basal Relations
- Capacity for Love
- Capacity for Truth
- Communio Personarum
- Concept of Person
- Concupiscence
- Conscience
- Dignity
- Empirical-Functionalist (Actualist) Concept of Person
- Encounter
- Essential Characteristic of the Person
- Face
- Family
- Forgiveness
- Free Will
- Freedom
- Guilt
- Heart
- Human Person
- Identity
- Individuality
- Interiority
- Interpersonality
- Judgment
- Love
- Motherhood
- Ontological Dignity
- Original Solitude
- Parenthood
- Person
- Person-Behavior
- Personalistic Norm
- Personhood
- Potentiality Argument
- Rationality
- Relational Concept of Person
- Repentance
- Right
- Self-Gift
- Self-Transcendence
- Social Role
- Someone
- Suffering
- The Beginning of Human Existence
- The Diachronic Identity Objection
- The Good
- Transcendence
- Uniqueness
- Uniqueness of the Person
- Vulnerability
- Will
Ontology & Metaphysics
- Absolute Being
- Accident
- Act
- Act and Potency
- Actuality
- Agere sequitur esse
- Anti-Essentialism
- Being
- Causa finalis
- Christian Philosophy
- Concept of Being
- Dialectical Thinking
- Dimension of the Fundamental Form of Reality
- Entity
- Esse naturale
- First Actuality
- First Dimension
- First Intention
- Form
- Form and Matter
- Form of Existence
- Form of Reality
- Fundamental Form of Reality
- Higher Animal
- Intentional Being
- Logical Being
- Material A Priori
- Matter
- Metaphysics
- Mode of Being
- Nature
- Nature as Ground
- Plant
- Primordial In-Itself Being
- Real Ontology
- Second Actuality
- Second Dimension
- Second Intention
- Spiritual Being
- Substance
- Substance Ontology
- Substance-Ontological Concept of Person
- Substance-Ontological-Relational Concept of Person
- Technology
- The Performative Contradiction
- Third Dimension
Intelligence, AI & Speech Acts
- Act of Intelligence
- Artificial Intelligence — AI
- Bearer of Intelligence
- Computational Conception of Intelligence
- Conception of Intelligence
- Defective AI Speech Act
- Derived Intentionality
- Four Faculty-Limits
- Genuine Speech Act
- Intentionality
- Knowledge-Graph Retrieval as Grounding
- Language
- Ontologically Uncertain Bearer of Intelligence
- Original Intentionality
- Phenomenological Conception of Intelligence
- Speech Act
- Substance-Ontological Conception of Intelligence
- Truth-Apt Act
- Turing Test
Mind, Consciousness & the AI Debate
- AI Consciousness Debate
- AI Ethics
- AI-Generated Output
- Blockhead Argument
- Chinese Room Argument
- Consciousness
- Dialogue
- Extended Mind Thesis
- Hard Problem of Consciousness
- Oblivion of the Person
- Philosophical Zombie
- Qualia
- Self-Consciousness
- Solipsism
Robotics, BCI & AI Ethics
- Brain-Computer Interface
- Care Robot
- Cognitive Liberty
- Combat Drone
- Combat Robot
- Degree of Autonomy
- Drone Swarm
- Enhancement BCI
- EU AI Act
- Full Rights Dilemma
- Humanoid Robot
- Lethal Autonomous Weapon System (LAWS)
- Mental Integrity
- Mental Privacy
- Neural AI
- Neural as Predicate
- Neuro-Symbolic AI
- Neuroright
- Normative Justification
- Ontology as Constraint
- Responsibility Gap
- Robot
- Rome Call for AI Ethics
- Statistical Ethics Simulation
- Symbolic AI
- Technical Augmentation
- Therapeutic BCI
- UN GGE LAWS
Truth, Cognition & Method
- Argument
- Argumentative-Dialectical Balance of the Concepts of Person
- Cognition
- Duhem-Quine Thesis
- Error
- Experience
- Falsificationism
- Insight
- Lifeworld
- Munich-Göttingen School
- Natural Science
- Naturalistic Fallacy
- Objection
- Personalism
- Phenomenological Method
- Phenomenology
- Philosophy
- Popper Falsification Argument
- Positivism
- Archphenomenon
- Reason
- Science
- Substance Personalism
- Thomism-Phenomenology Synthesis
- Truth
- Truthful Statement
- Truthfulness
- Understanding
Bioethics & Phases of Life
- Abortion
- Assisted Suicide
- Bioethics
- Birth
- Body (Leib)
- Body-Soul Unity
- Coma
- Dead Donor Rule
- Death
- Dementia
- Dying
- Embodiment
- Embryo
- Euthanasia
- Fertilization
- Fetal phase
- Future Person
- Genetic Technology
- Grief
- Grief Models
- Hospice
- Killing
- Kübler-Ross Model
- Life
- Life (Biological)
- Life (personal)
- Life Phase
- Mechanical Life Support
- Ontologically Uncertain Status
- Palliative Care
- Phases of Dying
- Posthumanism
- Precautionary Principle
- Right to Life
- Soul
- Suicide
- Surrogacy
- Synthetic Embryo Model (iBlastoid)
- Total Pain
- Transhumanism
- Triage
Ethics, Law & Society
- Authority
- Common Good
- Community
- Displacement
- Distributive Justice
- Education
- Essential Law
- Homelessness
- Human Rights
- Human Trafficking
- Instrumentalization
- Justice
- Lie
- Natural Law
- Peace
- Power
- Punishment
- Responsibility
- Technocratic Paradigm
- Torture
- Violence
- Work
Further Concepts
- Action
- Actus humanus
- Address
- Aesthetic Value
- Affirmation
- Beauty
- Commodity
- Concept
- Conflict
- Contingency
- Decision
- Discursive Capacity
- Empathy
- Enterprise
- Esse intentionale
- Essential Intuition
- Intellectual Value
- Intention
- Intentional Feeling
- Intrinsic Value
- Intrinsically Evil Act
- Meaning
- Money
- Moral Ought
- Moral Value
- Objective Value
- Obligation
- Personal Character
- Promise
- Reverence
- Scientism
- Social Act
- Space
- State of Affairs
- The Exclusion Objection
- Time
- Value-Response
- Values
- Virtue
- Vital Value
- War
Reproductive Medicine & Embryology
- Artificial Fertilization
- Artificial Womb
- Carnegie Stages
- Cryopreservation
- Ectogenesis
- Embryo Donation
- Embryo Research Utilization
- Embryo Transfer
- Eugenic Selection
- Fourteen-Day Rule
- Fragmented Parenthood
- Frozen Embryo Transfer
- Gamete Donation
- Gastrulation
- HuDeCA Cell Atlas
- In Vitro Fertilization
- In Vitro Maturation
- Indefinite Cryostorage
- Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy
- Organogenesis
- Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
- Right to Knowledge of One’s Genetic Origin
- Savior Sibling
- Sex Selection
- Supernumerary Embryo
Death, Brain Death & Organ Donation
- Apnea Test
- Asystole
- Autoresuscitation
- Autoresuscitation Observation
- Brain-Based Criterion of Death
- Cardiopulmonary Criterion of Death
- Consent Regulation for Organ Donation
- Criterion of Death
- DCD Heart Donation
- Divisible Organ
- Donation after Brain Death
- Donation after Circulatory Death
- Donor Organ
- Five-Minute Observation
- Heart-Lung Machine
- Irreversibility Diagnostic Procedure
- Irreversibility Thesis
- Irreversible Loss of Brain Function
- Living Organ Donation
- Medically Diagnosed Irreversibility
- No-Touch Period
- Normothermic Regional Perfusion
- Ontological Irreversibility
- Opt-Out Regulation
- Paired Organ
- Performative Permanence
- Permanence
- Permanence Thesis
- Postmortem Donation
- Principle of Totality
- Residual Hypothalamic Function
- Unpaired Organ
- Withdrawal of Treatment
AI Arrangement & Pseudo-Encounter
- AI Affirmation Arrangement
- AI-Algorithmic Arrangement
- AI-Arranged Oblivion of Personhood
- AI Arrangement Methods in Dialogue
- AI Attention Arrangement
- AI Choice Architecture
- AI Conversation Simulation
- AI-Derivative Persona
- AI Discourse Arrangement
- AI Persona Arrangement
- AI Pseudo-Encounter
- AI Quasi-Address
- AI Truth-Indifferent Utterance