Personal otherness according to Emmanuel Mounier's personalist approach and the orthodox notion of the human person
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This article examines the notion of personal otherness by bringing Emmanuel Mounier's personalist philosophy into dialogue with the Orthodox conception of the human person. The study adopts a comparative and theological approach, articulating two distinct traditions of thought around a common problematic: the objectifying reduction of the human person to a thing among things. The author shows that, in Mounier, authentic freedom can only be fulfilled in relation to others, which aligns with the Orthodox vision according to which the person is constituted in communion. The theological contribution of the article lies in the highlighting of a convergence between Western personalism and Orthodox ecclesiology: Eucharistic communion appears as the place where otherness is fully sanctified and where the solitude of modern man finds a coherent anthropological and soteriological response.
This article has not been translated yet — it is available in its French version here.
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