Reconsidering the Political: A Realization of a Person or a Way to Depersonalization?
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Aistė Noreikaitė
Vilnius University, Lithuania
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-8866
Published 2022-10-19
https://doi.org/10.15388/Problemos.2022.102.6
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Keywords

moral ontology
political ontology
the political
ontology of a person
Robert Spaemann

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Noreikaitė, A. (2022) “Reconsidering the Political: A Realization of a Person or a Way to Depersonalization?”, Problemos, 102, pp. 74–89. doi:10.15388/Problemos.2022.102.6.

Abstract

This paper takes on the highly problematic question whether the political is reconcilable with the conception of a person within Robert Spaemann’s philosophy. Spaemann devotes himself to detailed explication of the moral ontology of the person, however, the political ontology in his thought is only assumed but not developed and it seems to stand in deep conflict with the developed elements of person’s ontology. The aim of the paper is to investigate whether Spaemann’s notion of the political can be reconciled with the rest of the person’s ontology and if this turn to the political rather leads to depersonalization. It is argued that it is possible to develop Spaemann’s personal ontology while integrating the concept of the political within the conception of a person.

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