Bartnik, Czesław S. (Wydawnictwo Towarzystwa Naukowego Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego, 1989)
The elements of personalism in anthropology have been present in many systems for a very long time, though they were not called personalism directly. But we still lack a personalism well developed into a complete system or even into a complete and many-directional trend of thought within the sphere of the theory of being in general. I propose in this respect an in tegral, realistic, synthetic and absolute personalism. It views the whole reality through the fact and mystery of a person. The person is a principle, reason, key, goal and sense of any reality. Being can exist, and be understood, ultimately and solely as personal, or rather, as related to person. The person is the starting point of any reality and it "certifies" that this reality is real. Hence antipersonalism is the greatest mistake and the worst evil. It is simply an antiphilosophy.
