personalism
Focus on individuals
Personalism is a philosophical approach that places the human person—rather than abstract principles, systems, or institutions—at the center of ethical and metaphysical thought.
It emphasizes individual dignity, freedom, and the primacy of personal relationships.
The term also describes a tendency to make issues personal rather than keeping them abstract: His personalism made every policy debate feel like a personal attack.
State of sentient awareness
- selfhoodIndividual identity, personhood
- soulInnermost animating essence
- beingExisting as something
- existenceState of being real
agency · autonomy · individuality · subjectivity · sentience · self-determination · essence · moral agency
Protected from transgression
- worthDegree of importance
- respectRegard with honor
- rightsJustified claims to freedoms
- humanityPeople as a whole
sacredness · inherent value · human rights · integrity · honor · ethics · morality · self-respect
Profound shared closeness
- dialogueSpoken exchange between parties
- encounterUnexpected meeting or confrontation
- mutualityShared dependence or exchange
- solidarityUnity among allies
community · fellowship · reciprocity · love · presence · participation · belongingness · openness
Philosophy stressing self-created meaning
- phenomenologyStudy of subjective experience
- humanismPhilosophy prioritizing earthly reason
- subjectivismBelief truth is personal
- metaphysicsPhilosophy of existence's nature
ontology · idealism · theism · transcendence · immanence · teleology · pluralism · ethics
Organized effort for worker rights
- social reformOrganized push for societal betterment
- civil rightsGuaranteed individual legal protections
- liberationRelease from constraint
- advocacyPleading for a cause
activism · social justice · grassroots · subsidiarity · common good · worker rights
consciousness
State of sentient awareness
existence · agency · autonomy · individuality · subjectivity · sentience · self-determination · essence · moral agency · rationality
inviolability
Protected from transgression
humanity · sacredness · inherent value · human rights · integrity · honor · ethics · morality · self-respect · nobility
communion
Profound shared closeness
- dialogueSpoken exchange between parties
- encounterUnexpected meeting or confrontation
- mutualityShared dependence or exchange
solidarity · community · fellowship · reciprocity · love · presence · participation · belongingness · openness · responsibility
existentialism
Philosophy stressing self-created meaning
- phenomenologyStudy of subjective experience
- humanismPhilosophy prioritizing earthly reason
- subjectivismBelief truth is personal
metaphysics · ontology · idealism · theism · transcendence · immanence · teleology · pluralism · ethics · dialogical
labor movement
Organized effort for worker rights
- social reformOrganized push for societal betterment
- civil rightsGuaranteed individual legal protections
- liberationRelease from constraint
advocacy · activism · social justice · grassroots · subsidiarity · common good · worker rights
- Modern PhilosophySartre, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Russell, Nietzsche
- American Philosophypragmatism, William James, John Dewey, Ralph Waldo Emerson, transcendentalism
- Christian DemocracyCDA, CSU, subsidiarity, Angela Merkel, DC
- distributismsubsidiarity, private property, small enterprise, family business, smallholding
- Catholic ChurchVatican, papacy, cardinals, popes, papal
- philosophyethics, logic, metaphysics, ontology, epistemology
personalismmaterialism
Prioritizing goods over spirit
physicalism · abstraction · naturalism · mechanism · reductionism
personalismcollectivism
Group primacy doctrine
statism · totalitarianism · communism · authoritarianism · corporatism
personalismutilitarianism
Greatest-happiness moral theory
consequentialism · abstraction · formalism · legalism · deontology
- split personalityFragmented identity disorder
- multiple personality disorderCondition with alternate identities
- personality testMeasures individual character traits
- strong personalityAssertive, memorable demeanor
- personality traitsEnduring behavioral tendencies
- personality typeClassification of characteristic traits