Što personalizam može reći suvremenom čovjeku?
What Can Personalism Convey to a Contemporary Human Being?

Summary/Abstract: Personalism appeared on the world stage in the precisely defined, very difficult and merciless period of human history as a reaction to an all-encompassing destruction of the human individual. Today, we find ourselves in a similar condition, though the outward appearance of the social circumstances may seem to be quite different. Human being, as an individual, as a unique person, faces many problems and challenges for which he cannot find an adequate solution. The intention of the paper is to see whether the ideas and the solutions which personalism formulated can help us in our quest, and whether personalism was just a shortlived passing stage in the development of philosophical thought. First we intend to present the reasons and causes for the appearance of personalism, and to present its relevant achievement in order to be able to see its contemporaneity. We will look into the famous thought by Paul Ricoeur that, in spite of the fact that personalism ended as a philosophical movement, the problem of human person returned into the centre of philosophical thought of the contemporary human being. The presentation will end with a critical overview concerning the important contribution of personalism which surpasses the historical context in which it appeared. It will also show the need for the metaphysical foundation of human person, and the all-encompassing phenomenological and metaphysical research of the new way of realization of every human person, and the affirmation of its dignity.

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