Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of Illustrations -- Editorial Foreword -- Preface -- Autobiographical Sketch and Introduction by John H. Lavely -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE -- THE PERSONALIST VISION -- ONE Biographical Sketch -- A Century of Bowne's Theism -- WARREN E. STEINKRAUS -- TWO Biographical Sketch -- Some Definitions for Personalists -- EDGARD SHEFFIELD BRIGHTMAN -- THREE Biographical Sketch -- Theistic Personalistic Idealism and the Problem of Good and Evil -- PETER A. BERTOCCI -- FOUR Biographical Sketch -- The Ego-centric Prerogative: A Plea for Idealistics -- D. LUTHER EVANS -- PART TWO -- THE ENLARGEMENT OF THE VISION -- FIVE Autobiographical Sketch -- The Person in a Personal World: An Inquiry into the Metaphysical Significance of the Tragic Sense of Life -- ERAZIM KOHÁK -- SIX Autobiographical Sketch -- Personalism and the Dignity of Nature -- FREDERICK FERRÉ -- SEVEN Autobiographical Sketch -- Socialism Revisited: A Personalistic Perspective -- WALTER G. MUELDER -- EIGHT Biographical Sketch -- Personalism in Latin America -- CORNELUS KRUSÉ -- PART THREE -- PROBLEMS WITHIN PERSONALISM -- NINE Biographical Sketch -- A Critique of Brightman's Person and Reality -- JOHN D. WILD -- TEN Biographical Sketch -- Some Problems in Personalism -- LEROY E. LOEMKER -- ELEVEN Biographical Sketch -- Personalism and the Mind-Body Problem -- JOSEPH D'ALFONSO -- TWELVE Autobiogrpahical Sketch -- The Problem of Self-Constitution in Idealism and Phenomenology -- ERROL E. HARRIS -- PART FOUR -- RELATED PHILOSOPHIES -- THIRTEEN Biographical Sketch -- Essence, Existence, and Personality -- JOHN N. FINDLAY -- FOURTEEN Autobiographical Sketch -- Is the Self an Ultimate Category? -- JOHN E. SMITH -- FIFTEEN Autobiographical Sketch -- The Structure of Givenness -- CHARLES HARTSHORNE -- SIXTEEN Autobiographical Sketch -- Process and Personality in Bergson's Though t -- MILIČ ČAPEK -- SEVENTEEN Biographical Sketch -- Changes in Kant's Metaphysical Conception of Man -- WILLIAM H. WERKMEISTER -- EIGHTEEN Autobiographical Sketch -- The Personalism of Karol Wojtyla -- MARY T. CLARK -- NINETEEN Biographical Sketch -- The Nature of the Physical Existent -- IVOR LECLERC -- Appendix The Personalist Discussion Group: A Half-Century Inventory of Papers -- About the Editors -- Index.

This book presents selected addresses presented before the Personalist Discussion Group meetings held in conjunction with the annual meetings of The American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division. It includes the central ideas of American Personalistic Idealism developed during the twentieth century, its major criticisms, and recent developments by philosophers who are either Personalistic Idealists or sympathetic to the position.

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