Mar 07 2025 24 mins 1
What is a person? Where did the idea of personhood come from?
Brent talks with Joshua Farris about his recent articles on personhood on De Gruyter.
- (0:50) Where did the idea of a person come from?
- (4:15) Boethius and personhood;
- (7:15) The Reformation and personhood. Calvin;
- (11:05) Modern Europe and the States;
- (13:45) Descartes and the person;
- (16:40) Jonathan Edwards and the person;
- (19:05) The idea of persons in the modern West.
Links mentioned in this episode:
www.degruyter.com/database/EBR/entry/key_56fb87e7-b85b-4bb7-b4ec-53d6e45d5382/html
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