La persona tra sostanza e relazione: premesse ontologiche

Personhood is certainly different from individuality, but this does not mean that a person is an individual whose relation to otherness is an internal or essential one (which would entail organicism and collectivism). Rather this means that a person is an individual whose mind is intrinsically open to universal and intersubjective values such as truth and goodness. Moreover, the latter theoretical pattern is wholly compatible with free will, which is perhaps the main feature of a person, while the former is not at all.