Personal communion; can exist only between individual persons who, as spiritual substances, stand in themselves and open themselves to one another. The communio personarum is the deepest form of interpersonality: not mere juxtaposition or functional cooperation, but a reciprocal personal self-gift and spiritual interpenetration.
The communio personarum presupposes interpersonality and at the same time surpasses it: whereas interpersonality designates the fundamental being-related-to-one-another of persons, the communio personarum designates the realized communion in which persons affirm and love one another. The family is the first and most natural form of the communio personarum (cf. Bexten 2017, pp. 198–205).
Ontological classification:
- Superordinate concept: interpersonal relation, archphenomenon
- Subordinate concepts: family
Ontological relations:
- presupposes: interpersonality
- is also realized in: dialogue as reciprocal self-gift in speaking (Wojtyła)
- excluded with respect to non-personal counterparts: no AI system can be part of a communio personarum
Chapter assignment: Chapter 4: Personhood
Sources: Generated by querying the Personhood ontology.
Further sources:
- Wojtyła, Karol (1969): Osoba i czyn. Kraków (English: The Acting Person, transl. Andrzej Potocki, Dordrecht: Reidel, 1979). (Personal self-gift and communion)
- Stein, E.: Der Aufbau der menschlichen Person (1932/33, ed. 2004). ESGA 14. Herder. (German) (Interpersonal communal structure)
See also
Interpersonality, interpersonal relation, personal love, capacity for love, Person, spiritual substance, Love, Karol Wojtyła