Personhood | The Philosopher

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"Trust and the Plea for Recognition": An Essay by Johnny Brennan (Keywords: Trustworthiness; Character; Personhood; Security; Human Nature)

"Trust has value in itself because it is an expression of our agency, even of what we might call our personhood."

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"Recognition": An Essay by Kristina Lepold (Keywords: Freedom; Agency; Personhood; Hegel; Honneth)

"Recognition is not just a moral or ethical concept, but also, and perhaps primarily, a political concept."

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"Opacity": An Essay by Francey Russell (Keywords: Self-Knowledge; Moral Psychology; Literature)

"Self-knowledge emerges as an exercise of human agency, to be understood as the way in which one takes responsibility for one’s own mind."

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