This book could treat only a fraction of the questions that arise when one reflects seriously on what the human being is. Much that really deserved a study of its own could only be hinted at. And behind every chapter stand thinkers whose works contain far more than could be conveyed here.
The following suggestions are not a complete bibliography. They are an invitation: a selection of books that can be especially helpful to anyone who wants to think further. Anyone who picks up one of these works will find far more in it than this book could hold — and will discover more than one question that was never even asked here.
Sections
- On the Question of What a Person Is
- On the Method of Careful Looking
- On Understanding Being and Essence
- On Human Dignity
- On the History of the Concept of Person
- On the Phenomenon of the Oblivion of the Person
- A Word in Closing
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