Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents 3
3. Chapter 1 Introduction 7
4. Part I On Love
5. Chapter 2 Personal Individuality: Dietrich von Hildebrand in Debate with Harry Frankfurt 19
6. Chapter 3 Dietrich von Hildebrand on the “Mine” of Love and the Gift of Self in Love: Parallels to Wojtyła’s Theology of the Gift 33
7. Chapter 4 On the Different Forms of Self-Love 45
8. Part II Two Religious Perspectives on Personalism
9. Chapter 5 Islam and Human Dignity: Insights into Muslim Ethico-Philosophical Thinking 69
10. Chapter 6 The Confucian Ethical Vision in The Great Learning and Beyond 83
11. Part III Personalism Revisited
12. Chapter 7 Community, Persons, and the Case of Faked Identity 99
13. Chapter 8 A Personalistic Religious Humanism 117
14. Chapter 9 Non-Political ‘Transpersonalism’ of Meister Eckhart 127
15. Chapter 10 In the Shadow of Virtue: Why Ethical Personalism Needs an Ethical Impersonalism 137
16. Chapter 11 Personalism and Personalisms 155
17. Part IV Personalism and Its Demands
18. Chapter 12 Personalism versus Totalitarianism: Dietrich von Hildebrand’s Philosophical-Political Project 189
19. Chapter 13 Persons as Subjects of Suffering 205
20. Chapter 14 How Contextual Ethics Defies Ethical Personalism Case Studied: Interrogational Torture 241
21. Chapter 15 Maintaining Humanity in a Technology Orientated World of Today 257
22. Index 275